"A reader with introductions and religious commentaries"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Plato: the human person as spirit / Introduction and commentary by R.E. Houser. -- Aristotle: the human person as a besouled body / Introduction and commentary by R.E. Houser. -- Saint Augustine: the human person as relational and volitional / Introduction and commentary by Leonard A. Kennedy. -- Saint Thomas Aquinas: the human person as embodied spirit / Introduction and commentary by Leonard A. Kennedy. -- René Descartes: the human person as a dualism / Introduction and commentary by Desmond J. Fitzgerald. -- David Hume: the human person as a construct / Introduction and commentary by Hunter Brown. -- Søren Kierkegaard: the human person as a collision of opposites / Introduction and commentary by Dennis L. Hudecki. -- Karl Marx: the human person as worker / Introduction and commentary by Michael T. Ryan. -- William James: the human person as elusive / Introduction and commentary by Hunter Brown. -- Friedrich Nietzsche: the human person as will to power / Introduction and commentary by John J. Snyder. -- Sigmund Freud: the human person as sexual / Introduction and commentary by Deal W. Hudson.

Edith Stein: the human person as male and female / Introduction and commentary by Prudence Allen. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein: the human person as linguistic animal / Introduction and commentary by John J. Haldane. -- B.F. Skinner: the human person as necessitated / Introduction and commentary by Celia Wolf-Devine. -- Jean-Paul Sartre: the human person as freedom / Introduction and commentary by Leonard A. Kennedy. -- Simone de Beauvoir: the human person as co-existent / Introduction and commentary by Janine D. Langan. -- Miguel de Unamuno and Ernest Becker: the human person as mortal / Introduction and commentary by John D. Morgan.