Cheikh Mbacké Gueye Knihy

Ethical Personalism proposes to reflect on the person from at least three levels: ontology, epistemology, and ethics. Articulating from various philosophical and religious angles and traditions the ontological and inalienable value of the human person, i.e., her dignity, the contributors to this volume show not just what it means to be a human person, but also what it takes to live accordingly. Hence, beyond the purely theoretical elaboration on ethical personalism that reposes the crucial debates between relativism and realism on the one hand, and consequentialism and deontology on the other hand, this volume offers a range of insights useful for addressing concrete and practical matters that we, as humans, are confronted in our everyday life. With the call "back to the person!" which takes roots from a deep conviction to bring into light the value of the person, Ethical Personalism unequivocally affirms the necessity of (re)placing the person in the centre of our project of society, economic plans, political settings, and environment policies.

Cosmopolitans are often regarded as utopian and rootless. The author of Late Stoic Cosmopolitanism tries, with the help of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius, to 'rehabilitate' these clichés by showing not just that cosmopolitanism, as an attitude, is a result of a certain educational agenda accessible to humanity, but also that the dialectics of rootedness and openness lie at the core of what it means to be a 'citizen of the world". The book investigates also the place and role of cosmopolitanism within late Stoic philosophical system, not without tackling some issues such as identity and peace which mean so much for human being in general, and for twenty-first century man in particular.