Psychology and Person



Psychology and Person

Thesis Statement

“Humans, like all animals, begin as a single cell, the ovum, in the ovary.”

Discussion

One of the problems posed by human nature is that of relating the idea of person to that of human being. In Latin the use of the term persona to refer to human beings was late: previously it had denoted a dramatic role (as it still does in critical usage), and then a legal person (see below). Philosophies of the relation between the person and the human being are various: Locke distinguished them on the grounds that the same human being might ...