Paradoxes of the Person as an Anthropological Challenge

The chapter examines the uniqueness of man as a being whose existence and actions are marked by numerous paradoxes. Human susceptibility to paradoxes manifests in various domains, including cognition, morality, art, and religion. Among these are the paradoxes of personhood: being and becoming a person, ontic incommunicability and intentional communicability, being both part and whole, and the cognitive openness and hiddenness of the person. The author argues that these paradoxes cannot be reduced to mere errors of thought, language, or cognition. Since they cannot be resolved through logical or methodological tools, they present an anthropological challenge to philosophy.