Become a member
About membership:
Membership enables a greater level of participation in the Personalist Project.
- a members-only forum for discussion, where members can write their own posts as well as comment on others
- free podcasts of our public lectures
- invitation to our First Friday Reading Circle gatherings
- discounts and priority registration on our courses
- lots more (we hope!) as we grow and develop
Free start-up phase:
- For the time being, while we are getting off the ground, membership is free.
- All we ask is that those who sign up be sincere in their interest in Christian personalism and respectful in intention toward the work of the Personalist Project and toward fellow members.
Gollum too, is a fitting example of addiction.
His 'precious' literally annihilates his personhood--splitting his personality into 2: such that he can no longer say 'me' but only 'we'.
In other words, he is not free to exercise an "I-Thou" relationship of persons, but pitifully, "we-it"
I argue that addiction does precisely this: objectifies the personal dimension of reality, such that everything to the addict can only be viewed in relation to the object, "it". Persons themselves are merely means to the end of possessing "it". It is nothing short of slavery to the "precious"
May. 20 at 4:10pm | See in context