THE HOLISTIC-CONFIGURATIONAL THEORY OF PERSON IN THE STRUCTURAL-SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

The debate on the metaphysics of person has gained prominence in analytical philosophy in recent decades. This is explained by several factors among them the perpetual interest in finding an answer to ‘who am I?’ In the current scenario, the debate on the ontological status of the person has been carried out by various types of theories, from dualist approaches to different versions of physicalism. The central problem of the debate is the assumption of a general ontology and a semantics that are not explicit or incoherent. In this paper, we present the holistic configurational theory of personhood (HCT) of the Structural-Systematic Philosophy (SSP). The essential feature of this position is the approach to understanding the person in a more comprehensive theoretical framework, in which mind and body are seen as interconnected dimensions of the whole. Indeed, the mental and physical states belong to the all-embracing dimension of Being as such and as a whole, which reveals a new perspective capable of dissolving the classic impasse of mind-brain interaction.