The sociological concept of the person embodies a complex and fruitful insight. First, all societies have some general ideas about the constitution of individual human beings and of the reasons they act as they do. All societies, in other words, have...

The concept of the person, like other comparative concepts such as kinship or the state, designates a zone of enquiry within which there is enough commonality across societies to ensure that comparison is reasonable, yet enough variation between them...

A few good persons can do more than many not so good. (Spanish) A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all. (English) A good man is a man of goods. (French) A good man needs no recommendation. (Yiddish) A good man’s place is...

. Certain modern writers use ‘person’ in a technical way to stand for a type of entity different from material objects and disembodied spirits. P.F.Strawson insists that persons are not reducible to these other things. He distinguishes...

The classical definition of a person is "a human being regarded as an individual."[1] In modern usage, the term "person" is subject to dispute and re-interpretation based on alternate definitions. This is especially so for uses that are not necessarily...