Personal Understanding Research Articles

Structured supervised exercise training or motivational counselling during pregnancy on physical activity level and health of mother and offspring: FitMum study protocol

IntroductionA physically active lifestyle during pregnancy improves maternal and offspring health but can be difficult to follow. In Denmark, less than 40% of pregnant women meet physical activity (PA) recommendations....

Critical design method as an approach to improve design thinking among Pearl Academy students

Over the course of time the designers have mastered the skill that can be applied to resolve a wide range of problems through analysis of a hypothesis using different research methods strategically and iteratively. The task ahead for the new generation designers is to develop designs that are preferable for a broader diverse population who needs personal understanding of their requirements. Critical design thinking could be applied as an approach to favour the designers to focus on future requirements of people and see beyond their ideological constrains in design.
 Critical design favours the development of critical thinking that supports the personal understanding of a design idea or proposal through expanding the meaning of design thinking. It can be adapted as a method challenging and improving the field of design, in order to achieve best teaching and learning in universities and design colleges. The purpose of the study is to test: by employing critical design method in design education to help the students learn, analyse and evaluate ideas and concepts in a critical manner. Also, it examines critical design as a method for questioning and improving design thinking among students that synergises perfectly with future design thinkers as well as their potential audience.
 A critical design workshop is conducted in Pearl Academy, Mumbai by the author to test and develop this way of thinking among design students. The workshop results are analysed under Bloom’s taxonomy, which is a set of three hierarchical models used to classify educational learning objectives under analysis, synthesis and evaluation (Torkildsby, 2018). An advantage of critical design, is that the method allows students to temporarily move away from problem solving, focusing on asking questions instead of providing answers – finding problems rather than solving them (Dunne & Raby, 2013, p.7).

High School Students Conception Profile on The Cell Material in Tuban Regency using Three-Tier Test Method

Conception is a person's understanding of something being observed. Cell material is prone to misconceptions owing to the fact that the material is unable to be sensed, moreover there are many sub-concepts that need to be fully apprehended. This research aims to describe the high school students conception profile on the cell material in Tuban Regency using the Three-Tier Test method, to describe the differences in the conception of high school students on cell material in Tuban Regency, and to describe the differences in the conception profile of students by school area. This is a descriptive-quantitative research using Three-Tier Test instrument. Data collection was carried out online via google form and interviews via google meet. 60 high school students of class XI in Tuban Regency were involved as the target of the research. The results showed that the conception profile of high school students on cell material in Tuban Regency mastered the concept of 53.21%, did not master the concept of 14.01% and misconceptions 32.78%. The highest of school that did not mastering concept was High School 1 Bancar at 31.30% and the highest misconception was High School 3 Tuban at 36.48%. Students experienced the highest misconception on the endocytosis concept, which was 63.33%. The cause of misconceptions is from student itself, worksheet book, and the teacher’s explanation.
 Keywords: Conception Profile, Cell, Three-Tier Test.

When policy entrepreneurs fail: Explaining the failure of long‐term care reforms in Poland

AbstractThis article explains the failure of two long‐term care (LTC) reforms attempted between 2005 and 2019 in Poland, and driven by policy entrepreneurs—individuals with a personal understanding of the challenges faced by LTC and determined to initiate policy change in the domain. The article inductively identifies the ‘outsider policy entrepreneur’ mechanism of policy reform. LTC in Poland is a negative case (or breakdown) of this mechanism, which occurs when a policy entrepreneur has enough political influence to initiate a formal reform proposal, but not enough to convince decision‐makers to adopt it. The article combines an examination of the role of policy entrepreneurs in social policy change with an analysis of their interactions with domestic and foreign epistemic communities. Through showing how ‘foreign’ policy models are used by policy entrepreneurs to pursue domestic reform, the study contributes to the literature on transnational policy diffusion/transfer. The analysis is based on document analysis and 16 semi‐directed expert interviews, which were used to process trace the explained outcome (failed reforms). The article concludes that the mechanism failures were due to the fact that involved policy entrepreneurs did not convince decision‐makers of the need to reform LTC. Specifically, the contribution identifies two features of the political context in illiberal post‐transition polities that interrupt the persuasion efforts of outsider policy entrepreneurs—the impossibility of inter‐partisan cooperation and continuity, and the declining role of Western policy models as catalysts for change.

The Mental Illness of a Modern Young Person as a Product of Mythological Consciousness

Introduction . One of the dangerous trends in the spiritual state of modern society is the predominant orientation of its most active and young part towards a simplified mythological attitude towards the surrounding world as a set of external conditions that exist regardless of the creative transformative activity of a person. The article examines the manifestations of mental ill health in the aspect of the individualistic and consumer attitude to life in a young person to life. In the scientific and philosophical literature, the high role of the personal myth is noted as a kind of psychological mechanism, thanks to which consciousness works in the correct way. At the same time, mass myths, which include, in particular, the myth of social success, people easily use to their detriment. In addition, as a characteristic of mythological consciousness, scientists note the phenomenon of hypostasis as attribution of independent existence to abstract concepts, as well as their sacralization. The scientific novelty of the article is due to the attention to the indicated manifestations of mythological consciousness as evidence of the mental illness of a modern person. Methodology and sources. This article, in line with the sociology of culture and spiritual life, analyzes the manifestations of a person’s mythological consciousness as alarming symptoms of a mass society, indicating a distortion of the cultural norm and deviation in the development of society. The article analyzes the results of an Internet survey conducted among junior students of St. Petersburg universities in order to determine the guidelines of their social behavior. The Internet survey was conducted using the Survio platform, and 127 respondents took part in it. The study was of a pilot nature, it was conducted on a sample population. The representativeness of the sample is ensured by such parameters as the age and occupation of the respondents. Results and discussion. The majority of respondents (61,4 %) preferred the myth of personal success as the most interesting for themselves and those around them, and concepts such as human rights, image and success in the minds of most respondents are hypostatized, that is, they are perceived as external conditions for a prosperous life. Only 7,1 % of the respondents are characterized by a personal understanding of these concepts in terms of guidelines for their personal social behavior. The concept of subjective creativity for the majority of respondents (83,6 %) is sacralized, and it does not allow the slightest restriction of their freedom. Conclusion. The results of the study confirmed the hypothesis that the social behavior of modern youth is largely determined by its adherence to modern mass myths, orienting towards a consumer attitude towards the world, ignoring the need for joint active participation in its creation, towards individualistically understood creative freedom. Such social behavior is one of the signs of mental illness, fraught with a decrease in a person's sense of social responsibility and leading to harmful consequences for society.

How classroom talk contributes to reading comprehension

This article is an inquiry into how classroom talk among learners and a teacher in a reading class contributes to comprehension. It draws on sociocultural perspectives on school learning (Melander, 2012; Pellegrino, 2020; Stahl, 2002), conversation analysis research of human interaction in the humanities (Edwards 1997, 2001; Tanner 2017) and teachers’ open invitations in whole-class discussion within classrooms (Koole & Elbers, 2014; Seedhouse, 2004). Video recordings of learner interactions have been transcribed by means of the Jefferson (1984) conventions and analysed by means of the conversation analysis framework of Clayman and Gill (2004). This framework draws on conversation analysis principles developed in various disciplines, and allows for a detailed analysis of what the comprehension interactions were about and how they were conducted for the purpose of comprehension. Analyses were considered based on sequence organisation, response preferences, lexical choices and gestures. Findings indicate that grade 4 learners use talk in creative, spontaneous and dedicated ways in their attempts to understand a text during a classroom lesson. Learners take turns at talking in ways that reflect their personal understandings of words and sentences, and interact in ways which clarify their own understanding of meanings. Non-verbal behaviour such as pointing, excitement, interruptions, tone of voice, faster and slower speech, sighs and observations are all patterns observed which, in the context of conversation sequences, contributed to interpretations of difficult words and also offered answers to comprehension questions. Findings are discussed in terms of the social actions associated with classroom talk, the value of independent attempts of meaning making and talking about the text for shared comprehension.

ІДЕЇ ГУМАНІЗАЦІЇ ПСИХОЛОГІЧНИХ ДОСЛІДЖЕНЬ У ПРАЦІ О. Ф. ЛАЗУРСЬКОГО «КЛАСИФІКАЦІЯ ОСОБИСТОСТЕЙ» (ДО 100-РІЧЧЯ ПЕРШОГО ВИДАННЯ ТВОРУ)

This article’s aim is to attract the attention of specialists to the conceptual work of O.F. Lazurski “Classification of Personalities”, its first edition having been appeared posthumously in 1921. This edition being the continuation of the O.F.Lazurki’s book “Assay on the Science of Characters” was completed and prepared for publication by his pupils, M.Ya.Basov and V.M.Miasishchev; it disappeared at once from the book market due to the greatest public interest forcing the scientists to take care for two next editions in 1923 and 1925. Our article underlines the “Classification of Personalities” to be written in an epoch known by radical social consciousness transformation induced by dramatic and tragic events due to military and political factors of global scale having been acted in 1914-1918. The World War I, events of the first Russian revolution having begun earlier, in 1905, gave to the researcher, being these events direct witness and entity, unique materials for scientific analysis and generalization. In his directives concerning any event, the scientist realized the necessity of social life reformation. Such a thesis formulates his principal task and aim having been developed under the influence of serious trials, both physical and psychical, appeared to the society of that time. The article gives more precise and supplemented biographical data concerning the development of this scientist as a psychologist; it presents also a significantly widened list of O.F. Lazurski’s papers and their bibliographic descriptions. In such a way, we have obtained a possibility to find the sequence and systematization of his researches as well as his ideas evolution and his principal theoretical approaches having become basic for creating of his own theoretical notions. The authors have used the data taken from the scientist’s epistolary inheritance permitting the reconstruction of socio-cultural conditions during his work and the understanding of this work influence on the formation of O.F. Lazurkin’s own priority tasks during his work. We have discussed separately the principle of personality active adaptation to the environment being the basis of O.F. Lazurkin’s personality classification. Such an approach concerning the psychology of each human personality permits to understand the existence of two important subdivisions: there are three subdivisions on psychic (mental) level and a lot of them according to their different types and varieties according for each person mental contents. During the scientist’s text research, we have ascertained the central conception of the O.F. Lazurski’s “Classification of Personalities” to be a holistic personality description according to principles of systematization and scientific reliability. We note the author’s critical approach in understanding and generalization of personality classification having been existed in his epoch as well as theoretical backgrounds of sign classification describing each person’s various manifestations. We have especially emphasized the priority of ideas concerning personality research humanization in O.F. Lazurski works aiming to show each individual unique properties. The personality classification developed by O.F. Lazurski takes into consideration both psycho-physiological and socio-cultural components of each personality type due to understanding of each human personality as a whole organism, both physiological and social, including all its numerous interrelations and manifestations.

‘How would you describe Grandpa?’ Mothers’ personal intelligence predicts personality talk with their children

AbstractMother–child conversations reflect and support many important skills—including, perhaps, children's understanding of personality. Children acquire an understanding of people's personalities during the preschool and early elementary years. This study of 4‐ to 9‐year‐old children and their mothers (Npairs = 135) investigated the relation between mothers’ ability to reason about the personalities of self and others—termed personal intelligence—and characteristics of their conversations with their children. Mothers and children conversed about topics potentially involving personality (e.g., contrasting two relatives), and later completed a validated ability‐based measure of personal intelligence. Across the conversations recorded between mother and child dyads, mothers’ personality talk was correlated with children's, and mothers’ personal intelligence scores predicted both, independent of age. This is the first study to document individual differences among mothers that may shape their conversations with children about people, with implications for children's developing understanding of personality.

Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Simple Protection Tool With Many Meanings.

Wearing face masks is recommended as part of personal protective equipment and as a public health measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Their use, however, is deeply connected to social and cultural practices and has acquired a variety of personal and social meanings. This article aims to identify the diversity of sociocultural, ethical, and political meanings attributed to face masks, how they might impact public health policies, and how they should be considered in health communication. In May 2020, we involved 29 experts of an interdisciplinary research network on health and society to provide their testimonies on the use of face masks in 20 European and 2 Asian countries (China and South Korea). They reflected on regulations in the corresponding jurisdictions as well as the personal and social aspects of face mask wearing. We analyzed those testimonies thematically, employing the method of qualitative descriptive analysis. The analysis framed the four dimensions of the societal and personal practices of wearing (or not wearing) face masks: individual perceptions of infection risk, personal interpretations of responsibility and solidarity, cultural traditions and religious imprinting, and the need of expressing self-identity. Our study points to the importance for an in-depth understanding of the cultural and sociopolitical considerations around the personal and social meaning of mask wearing in different contexts as a necessary prerequisite for the assessment of the effectiveness of face masks as a public health measure. Improving the personal and collective understanding of citizens' behaviors and attitudes appears essential for designing more effective health communications about COVID-19 pandemic or other global crises in the future. To wear a face mask or not to wear a face mask? Nowadays, this question has been analogous to the famous line from Shakespeare's Hamlet: “To be or not to be, that is the question.” This is a bit allegorical, but certainly not far from the current circumstances where a deadly virus is spreading amongst us... Vanja Kopilaš, Croatia.

Recognizing expressions of thriving among persons living in nursing homes: a qualitative study

BackgroundThriving has emerged as a contemporary and health-promoting concept for older people living in nursing homes; however, there has been limited research to explore how nursing home staff identify thriving in their everyday practice. The aim of this study was to explore how staff recognize expressions of thriving among persons living in nursing homes.MethodsSemi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 nurses working at a nursing home in Victoria, Australia. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and analyzed using qualitative content analysis.ResultsThe analysis resulted in six sub-categories and three main categories. Expressions of thriving were recognized in relation to how staff understood thriving, observed thriving and sensed thriving. Staff described comparing and contrasting clinical assessment indicators with their own personal and professional understandings of thriving, as well as their overall sense of the individual person within the wider situational and environmental context.ConclusionsOur results illuminate how staff recognize everyday expressions of thriving for people living in nursing homes and emphasizes the importance of utilizing person-centred care principles in clinical assessments. These findings have practical implications with regards to how thriving is identified and assessed in long-term care, and could be used to inform and guide staff education, person-centred care strategies, and organizational policies to better support and promote thriving in nursing homes.

Older patients' perspectives and experience of hospitalisation during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative explorative study.

Background and ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to gain in‐depth knowledge and an increased understanding on how isolation from close relatives and carers, during the COVID‐19 pandemic, impacted older patients during hospitalisation in a Geriatric department.MethodWe conducted a qualitative study using semi‐structured interviews and a phenomenological‐hermeneutic approach, to get an understanding of the older participants' perspectives and lived experiences. Complete interviews were available for 11 patients—six men and five women, between 69 and 91 years of age.ResultsThe participants' narratives identified several themes. Feeling isolated from and having no contact with close relatives or carers was prominent. The COVID‐19 pandemic created fear and anxiety among hospitalized patients. Relationships with family members and some staff became strained. The transformation from being “a person” to being “a patient” and loss of dignity, autonomy and a “sense of self” were themes identified in the analysis. Although virtual contact can't replace the real world, the use of technology to maintain contact with family and carers, and the need for help from hospital staff in facilitating this contact was deemed important. The environment of care was a prominent theme. The attitude of staff made a difference to how patients felt and some patients expressed a loss of decision‐making capability. The interviews were challenging in some cases because the interviews had to be interrupted or shortened due to ethical considerations around the individual person's needs and condition.Conclusions and implication for practiceOur study provided in‐depth knowledge on how older patients experienced hospitalisation during the COVID‐19 pandemic in a Danish hospital. The results emphasise that compassionate care includes a willingness to listen to older patients' narratives and to imagine life as depicted by them. This can lead to better understanding of an individual person's needs and increase the quality of care provided.

Building cross-disciplinary bridges in leadership: Integrating top executive personality and leadership theory and research

The top executive personality literature has grown significantly in recent years. We review this literature, consider its contributions to leadership research and practice, and discuss how future research on top executive personality should draw more heavily on the broader leadership literature. The paper first describes the top executive context and highlights the advantages and challenges of studying top executives. We then review the top executive personality literature in four areas that capture the bulk of the research: leadership of human resources, ethical leadership, strategic leadership and corporate governance, and firm performance. We examine how the top executive personality research in each area compares with other research on leaders' and their personalities that has been conducted on similar topics. The paper concludes with a future research agenda, which identifies other leader, team, and contextual considerations to advance our understanding of top executive personality and its influence. We also address methodological challenges related to measurement and endogeneity, because they are important for theory development and have received much attention in top executive personality research. In short, our paper examines how the literatures on top executives and leadership inform one another, and it helps lay a foundation for integrating these literatures more thoroughly.

The Persistence of Scientific Racism: Ernst Cassirer on the Myth of Race

AbstractThis article argues that Ernst Cassirer's views about the concept of substance and his views on mythic consciousness are applicable to the concept of race. By analyzing examples from the most influential and representative racial theories, this article shows that the concept of race functions like the concept of substance whereby random, large-scale, and irreducibly complex phenomena is explained through the deterministic behavior of a smaller, material, constituent part. Given that mythic consciousness explains causality in the same way, this substance-mode explanation of becoming can also be termed “mythic.” Further, under this substance/racial understanding of personhood, humans have no agency to determine their own fates. It is this fatalism that Cassirer railed against in The Myth of the State. In place of this substance (racial) understanding of personhood, and as this article will describe, Cassirer argued for a “functional” (cultural) understanding of personhood.

Is there a Meaningful General Factor of Personality?

Numerous studies and meta-analyses have now confirmed that personality traits tend to correlate such that a general factor of personality (GFP) emerges. Nevertheless, there is an ongoing debate about what these correlations, and therefore the GFP, represents. One interpretation is that the GFP reflects a substantive factor that indicates general social effectiveness or emotional intelligence. Another interpretation is that the GFP merely is an artifact based on measurement or response bias. In the present paper, we elaborate on a selection of topics that are central to the debate about this construct. Specifically, we discuss (a) the GFP in relation to more specific personality dimensions (e.g., Big Five, facets), (b) the validity of the GFP and under what circumstances it seems to 'disappear', and (c) the theoretical and practical relevance of the general factor. Overall, the review should provide insight into the nature of the GFP and whether or not it represents a meaningful factor that can contribute to a better understanding of personality.

PERSONALISTIČKO-RELIGIJSKI POJMOVI SLOBODA, DUH, LIČNOST U FILOZOFIJI NIKOLAJA BERĐAJEVA

In this paper article we will present the rebellion of Nikolai Berdyaev against ”ut- most objectivization of human essence” under ”extreme ideals of communism and anarchism”. This rebellion, in the philosophy and theosophy of Nikolai Berdyaev will be enveloped with the analysis of his version of christian personalism rooted in his understanding of personality, spirit, freedom, love and creativity, and their intercon- nectivity in the works Freedom and the Spirit. Apology of Christianity (1928), and Human slavery and Freedom.Essay on personalistic philosophy (1939). With fenomenological and hermeneutic method we will place a special focus on a seamingly paradoxal position of the autor himself between heresy and apology of the Orthodox Church. Philosophy of Nikolai Berdyayev will be placed between hellenism, christian personalism and western philosophy. This article seeks the answer on the following: What is hereti- cal in the teachings of Berdyayev apart his theachings of Ungrund? Can heresy of Berdyayev be found apart the mentioned teaching? And, finaly through relations of personality and history we will see the constant modernity of Berdyayev’s thought.

Information Services for the Use of Mind Maps in Teaching: the Experience of University Experimental Work

The purpose of the article is to identify the information services for creating mind maps in the process of linguistic training of future philologists at the seminars. A comparative analysis of the most used software products for creating mind maps was carried out based on an expert survey. The results of this analysis made it possible to choose a software product using mind maps. The results of the pedagogical experiment confirmed the assumption that mind maps are an effective means of mastering the knowledge of future philologists at the seminars. The use of mind maps in the processes of understanding information in the classroom affects the activity of students' listening, makes it possible to systematize information through personal understanding and structuring, and promotes effective memorization. The next areas of scientific research on the presented problem are the analysis of the effectiveness of mind maps in the independent work of students.

Understanding mental health in malaysian elite sports

The attention in the society and rapid expansion of interest on the status and challenges of mental health among sporting athletes, especially in the elite sports setting, had increased exponentially. The present study was aimed to explore and gain a better understanding of mental health and psychological well-being of Malaysian elite athletes. It also provides insights into a broader aspect based on participants' personal experiences. A semi-structured interview was conducted for all 32 athletes (male, n = 16; female, n = 16) from a variety of sport: individual, team-sports; able-bodied, and Paralympic. Participants were aged between 19-38 years old (mean 25.69 years) from various ethnicity and religions. Six (6) themes (Personal understanding on mental health; Stigma of mental health; Symptoms, effects and sources of mental health; Coping strategies; Mental health and well-being support; Advice of athletes) and 19 subthemes were derived based on qualitative thematic analysis. Based on the analysis, subthemes, i.e. Presentation in mass media; Transition; Personal life-related issues; Performance expectation; Sporting environment are significant stressors causing mental health issues. The influence of spirituality and religion on the topic of mental health was also being highlighted. In conclusion, it is hopeful that the present study will stimulate interest and discussion in identifying methods and direction for both researchers and practitioners in bridging the theoretical-applied gap and offer effective supports to Malaysian athletes.

ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ПРОНИКНЕННЯ ІНФОТЕЙНМЕНТУ У НОВИННУ ЖУРНАЛІСТИКУ ТЕЛЕКАНАЛІВ: «1+1», «СТБ», «ICTV»

The article describes the peculiarities of infotainment penetration into news journalism of TV channels: «1+1», «STB», «ICTV» (on the example of programs: «TSN», «Vikna-nowyny», «Facty. Informaciynyi vypusk»). Infotainment as a multifaceted means of filling the television air, a multifunctional aspect of mass and interpersonal communication is considered. Efficiency is achieved by working on certain schemes, as shown in this paper. The author draws attention to the fact that in Ukraine the active introduction of the infotainment method on television began after the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the economic crisis, the media faced financial difficulties and needed large advertisers, so to attract audiences, TV editors began to provide political and social information through the entertainment aspect, following the example of Western colleagues. The reasons and peculiarities of the infotainment genre in Ukrainian TV news are determined, the ways of presenting information on specific TV channels are analyzed, the role of a journalist and presenter in news broadcasting is revealed. In the process of analyzing issues of programs «TSN», «Vikna-nowyny», «Facty. Informaciynyi vypusk» it was found out that in their work correspondents from all creative «tools «of infotainment most often use structural and compositional techniques: visual design, elements of artistic montage, lives. Common techniques in news broadcasting are also: «journalist as an actor» and «topic as the core of content», meaningful components. Correspondents and presenters often use language play, emotionality and irony in the stories, thanks to which it is easy to present information, a person understands well what the presenter is talking about. One way to achieve the availability and attractiveness of information is a language game. Its essence is the transformation of stable phrases, proverbs, aphorisms etc. Currently, Ukrainian infotainment in news and information programs on domestic television is in its infancy. Its distribution in the TV content of all-Ukrainian channels promotes the development of the media themselves, because interesting news attracts advertisers, so, in our opinion, this genre is the future.

Über die Entwicklung des Verstehens von Wahrnehmung und Perspektivität

Abstract. The topic of this article is the ontogenetic development of an understanding of perception and of different subjects’ perspectives. We discuss the importance of alternating and explicating the different perspectives involved in joint object reference in hopes to get a better grip on what is actually meant by the metaphor of “putting oneself in someone else’s mental shoes” and on how such an ability might be acquired. Hegel’s (1820/2009, §260)principle of subjectivity states that no one can ever step outside of her subjective perspective. Thinking about another’s thoughts or perspectives is not first of all a psychological process of getting into or reading someone else’s mind. Rather, it is the internalization of a possible symbolic action qua form, which, like speech, has commonly intelligible content (Hegel 1820/2009, §§110, 111). Our investigations show that an understanding of other persons and their subjective access to the world has its origin in experiences of joint attention and joint action. By jointly acting with others, even infants can acquire practical knowledge of others’ relations to objects. Only much later do children come to understand others’ thoughts that are not actualized in action.

Как душа могла бы быть формой тела? Аристоте­левско-схоластический подход к вопросу о метафизической природе человеческой личности

The article is devoted to the ontological aspect of the problem of personal identity. In contemporary analytical metaphysics this problem is traditionally stated as the ques­tion: What am I? The standard alternatives for solving this question (the Neolockean Psychological View, Parfit’s theory, Cartesian dualism and animalism) are considered and it is shown that all of them, with the exception of Cartesian dualism, face a common fun­damental difficulty in accounting for the determinacy of our identity. We thus find our­selves confronted by an unattractive dilemma: either abandon the idea of a determinate identity of the human person or accept Cartesian dualism. It is further shown that the con­temporary debate overlooks (without sufficient reasons) the Aristotelian-Scholastic ap­proach to the understanding of the human person as a unity of soul and body. It is demon­strated that this approach has good potential for solving the problem of the indeterminacy of the identity of the human person.