Abstract
The article provides a rapid survey of concepts of human personhood over the last two and a half millennia, focussing particularly on the issue of dualism. It illustrates the variety of concepts of personhood, and the variety of types of dualism. The main thinkers touched on are the Presocratics, Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume and Kant, with a brief final section on developments in twentieth century psychology.
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