Osoba a dusza

Abstract

The term „person” is not ontologically empty, or it cannot be reduced to the role of the synonyms „man” or „soul” It is an ontological entity; it is real and of a higher order. It signifies the whole of human subsistence, somatic-pneumatic, subjectified into „self” and so it is not tantamount to the term „soul” Hence the human person is usually briefly defined as „someone subsisting in reality in the mode of ego” Boethius’ definition is only a definition of the human individual, and not of the person.