Pareyson: Personalism and Hermeneutics

Abstract

Personalism not only defines the existentialist phase of Pareyson’s thought, but is also present in his aesthetics, in his hermeneutic and also, albeit not explicitly thematized, in his ontology of freedom. In his existential phase Pareyson defines human existence not simply as a relationship with being, but as itself constituted by this relationship. From this it follows that his understanding of being is always a personal perspective. This perspective is a manifestation of being, but always also of the person. This does not mean that it is partial, but that the truth is given to us as inexhaustible. Finally the personality of the relationship with truth highlights the freedom of that relationship.