The relationship between individuation and personhood in the works of John Duns Scotus and Edith Stein

Abstract

The present article aims to demonstrate the points of convergence between the concept of the person in the works of John Duns Scotus and Edith Stein. It does not seek to assert a unified perspective between Scotus and Stein regarding the problem of the person but rather to demonstrate the aspects under which both thinkers approach their respective conceptions. The article will be structured as follows: an introduction, which will broadly outline the problem and the objectives of the article; a development section, which will present the formation of the concept of the person in the works of the aforementioned philosophers; and finally, a conclusion, where it is expected to demonstrate that the common ground between Scotus and Stein’s concepts of the person lies in the way the reality of the person is understood in light of how the authors theorized the problem of individuation.