Meaning of person (what is it, concept and definition)

What is Person:

The word person designates an individual of the human species, male or female, who, considered from a legal and moral notion, is also a conscious and rational subject, with the ability to discern and respond to his own acts. As such, it is an opposite concept to animal or thing, since rationality and life are attributed to it, and, in this sense, it fulfills a biological and psychic development, from birth to death.

Persona comes from the Latin persōna , which means 'actor mask' or 'theatrical character', and this from Etruscan phersu , which in turn comes from the Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon), which precisely translates 'mask'.

Person, then, refers to the mask that Greek or Roman actors put on in theatrical performances, and that had a horn to give more resonance to the voice, so that it reached all viewers. Hence, many times it is deepened about its meaning in a philosophical sense and it is said that to be a person is to play a role before the world, in society, as well as having a voice.

In its daily uses, as a person we call a man or woman whose name we do not know: "Tell that person to help you." As well as it can refer to the distinguished man or woman with an important public office.

Person is also a way of naming a character in a literary work.

On the other hand, there are expressions that contain the word person, such as the Latin phrase persona non grata , which means person not pleasant. While "making someone of your person", on the other hand, refers to evacuating, relieving the belly.

Person in Law

In Law, a person is a subject with rights and obligations from the legal point of view. There are two types:

Natural or natural person

It is the human individual with material existence who exercises his rights and duties in a particular way, from a legal point of view.

Legal or moral person

It is that independent entity, of exclusively legal existence, which is made up of groups or organizations of people and goods that are recognized from the point of view of Law as unitary bodies with the capacity to be the subject of rights and obligations. Examples of legal entities are associations, corporations, partnerships and foundations.

Grammatical person

In the area of ​​Linguistics, grammatical person is a concept that designates the grammatical accident that affects the verb and the pronoun, and that in the sentence indicates whether the agent person (who is the one that executes the action of the verb) or the patient person (which is the one that receives the action) is the one who speaks, the one who is spoken to, or the one who is spoken of.

There are also three types of grammatical persons: the first person, who designates the speaker in the speech; the second person, who is the one to whom the speech is addressed; the third person, who is neither first nor second person, but designates what the discourse refers to. These three people, furthermore, each subdivide into singular and plural.

Person is also the noun noun that is mediately or immediately related to the verb sentence.

Person in Philosophy

In philosophy, there are several definitions of person. For Boethius, a person is an individual substance of a rational nature. While Saint Thomas Aquinas considers a person to be a "supposed or individual of a rational nature," that is, a complete and sufficient unit that possesses spirit (intelligence and will). For Immanuel Kant, a person supposes a moral category, subject to rights and duties, that exists as an end in itself. In summary, it could be affirmed that a person is a rational individual, aware of himself and of moral values, capable of taking responsibility for himself.

Person in religion

According to Christian doctrine, there are angelic, non-human persons, such as the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, who are different persons but with the same divine essence. At the same time, the existence of devilish people is also admitted.