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Personalism seeks to understand the person in its richness, complexity, and unity, and, to achieve this goal, it has developed a rich and solid anthropology as well as an ethic of the person that is having repercussions in the philosophical and sociopolitical sphere. But what is the value of this philosophy? Does it offer a mere description of the reality of a phenomenological type, or does it penetrate to the bottom of what exists, offering its intelligible essence? Does it offer an ultimate explanation of the person, or is her vision subordinated to a deeper and more decisive one that would correspond to metaphysics?
To answer these questions, the author, an international expert in personalist philosophy, first defines the various meanings in which the term metaphysics can be understood and, secondly, does a comparison between personalism, in particular, integral Personalism, and the metaphysics of being. The analysis concludes that personalism can be considered a first sectoral philosophy, that is, a philosophy that does not need other philosophical referents to establish itself as a philosophy thanks to its direct access to experience, where the person is found.
This conclusion is based on the epistemology of integral experience and imposes a review of the traditional role of metaphysics and its connection with anthropology in general and Personalism in particular.
About the author
Juan Manuel Burgos is a personalist philosopher that has developed the theory of Integral Personalism. He is the founder and president of the Spanish Association of Personalism (www.personalismo.org), the Iberoamerican Association of Personalism and the Journal "Quién". He is also the Director of the Online Master's Degree in Philosophical Anthropology (UDIMA - Anáhuac) and Professor at Universidad Villanueva (Madrid).He has published numerous scientific articles and books, including 'An Introduction to personalism' (CUA Press 2018), 'Personalist Anthropology: a philosophical guide to life' (Vernon Press 2022), 'Repensar la naturaleza humana' (2017) and 'La Fuente originaria. Una teoría del conocimiento' (2023). His works have been translated into English, German, Polish and Portuguese.
