Contents
I. Critical Reflection on the Theory tf Selfhood
Introduction
1. The Primordial Fact of Human Existence
2. The Human Self as a Substance Existing in Historical Tension with Itself and with Other Human Selves
3. The Substance of Human Selfhood as Union of Body and Soul Understood as Composite of Matter and Form
4. The Human Soul as Truly, but Not Purely, Spiritual in Its Subsistence
5. The Elevation of Human Selfhood in Its Communal Existence into a Spiritual Existence in Its First- and Second-Person Ontology through the Empowerment of Intelligence and Free Will
II. Critical Reflection on the Practice Of Selfhood
6. Conscience, Responsibility, and the Human Good as Second Perfection of Selfhood
7. Freedom and the Necessity of Right Reasoning in Ethical Consciousness
8. The Necessity of Justice and Friendship in the Will as Rational Appetite for a Communal Good
9. The Necessity of Authority and Law in the Free and Communal Exercise of Self-determination
10. The Necessity of Courage and Temperance as Dispositions in the Sense Appetites of Ethical Consciousness for a Rational Participation in the Communal Good
Conclusion
Index