Continuing the Dialogue… In Reply to Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik’s Paper “On the Consequences of the Ambiguity of the Term ‘Personal Identity’: Some Remarks on Grażyna Osika’s Book Tożsamość osobowa w epoce cyfrowych technologii komunikacyjnyc

Grażyna OSIKA

Department of Applied Social Sciences, Faculty of Organization and Management, Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, ul. Roosevelta 26-28, Building A, room 219, 41-800 Zabrze, Poland , Poland

Abstract

The present considerations attempt to establish a dialogue between the classical understanding of the human person, represented by Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik, and the proposal to define ‘personal identity’ as the communication environment. For this purpose it was important to recognize areas common to both conceptions, such as the fundamental experience of being and the awareness of one’s ontological coherence and uniqueness. Additionally, in trying to address the question of who we are social references needed to be taken into account. The differences between the two approaches in question concerning the issue of ‘personal identity’ have been indicated and the areas demanding further analytical work in the communication model as well as in the classical approach have been identified.

Keywords:

personal identity, classical theory of human person, classical philosophy, communication personal identity model, personal authenticity, rationality