Human person and engagement

The personal realism of Paul Ludwig Landsberg

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https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2025.32.19647

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person, personal engagement, historicity, Landsberg

Abstract

The paper focuses on the reflection on the person as a being in devenir (Werdesein) in the thought of Paul Ludwig Landsberg. The German philosopher, who is almost unknown in the contemporary philosophy, had abundant links with important philosophers of the twentieth century. Among them, Max Scheler, Romano Guardini, Edmund Husserl, Max Horkheimer and Emmanuel Mounier. These links deeply influenced his thought and led him to produce an excellent anthropological synthesis that until now remains almost unknown in the philosophical panorama of the West. The intention of the text, then, in addition to addressing the connection between person, commitment and personalization as one of the central reflections of his philosophy, is to open spaces of interest for a series of investigations into the life and work of the author.

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Author Biography

  • Juan David Quiceno Osorio, Universidad Católica San Pablo

    Doctor de Filosofía en la Universidad de Navarra (España). Magister en filosofía por la Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (España). Filósofo y Teólogo por la Pontificia Universidad Gregoriana de Roma (Italia). Es profesor de antropología filosófica en la carrera de psicología de la Universidad Católica San Pablo y coordinador del grupo de investigación “Antropología y Psicología”. Se desempeña como Coordinador de Pregrado del Departamento de Humanidades y es editor de la revista Persona y Cultura. Es especialista en antropología en autores contemporáneos. Es autor de una decena de artículos de investigación y del libro: Identidad narrativa según Paul Ricoeur. Hacia una hermenéutica de la persona humana (2021). jdquiceno@ucsp.edu.pe

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Quiceno Osorio, J. D. (2025). Human person and engagement: The personal realism of Paul Ludwig Landsberg. Prometeica - Journal of Philosophy and Science, 32, e19647 (1-12). https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2025.32.19647
Received 2024-10-28
Accepted 2024-12-26
Published 2025-03-01