Identity and Openness to Otherness in the Personalism of Luigi Stefanini

Abstract

The article revisits certain constitutive aspects of the concept of person as developed in the philosophical proposal of Luigi Stefanini. It aims to illustrate how the act through which an individual relates primarily to oneself (thought-speech) is indistinguishable from the act of communicating and relating to others. This act serves as the primary locus from which the necessity of asserting a spiritual creative instance emerges.