RT Article
T1 Being human
JF Theology
VO 118
IS 4
SP 243
OP 249
A1 Phillips, Anthony 1936-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1784161365
AB What it is to be human is best understood from the Hebrew concept of the nephesh, best translated as ‘personality’. This controls both thoughts and actions, and even expresses itself through personal property. It is though only by the exercise of a proper selfishness that the nephesh is able to achieve self-fulfilment. This cannot be done either in isolation from others, or without space to listen and to look, or by ignoring one’s failures. In the end everyone’s vocation is to secure both for themselves and others their essential humanity by being their own unique nephesh.
K1 proper-selfishness
K1 Nephesh
K1 Humanity
DO 10.1177/0040571X15576878