Personhood theory addresses the microcosm of lived experience. It focuses on dimensions of the personal microcosm: In colloquial English, person is often synonymous with human. ...
i. Self bonded to objectivities. Both palpable objectivities and imaginative models. The boundary between these zones moves continually.
ii. Self as a monitoring hierarchy. Alertness, lucidity. Steering one's attention and action purposively.
iii. Self as longitudinal thematic identity, one's biographic identity
iv. The inquiry begins carried on in natural language.
Partial personhood is tacitly recognized by law in most cultures as reflected by parental rights and obligations, and in legal treatment of minors, the mentally handicapped, and the comatose.
Personhoodtheory has become a pivotal issue in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics.
Closely related to the debate on the definition of personhood is the relationship between persons, individual rights, and ethical responsibility.
Personhoodtheory attempts to compensate for its contamination by the myth by acknowledging many directions along which ordinary personhood can be abrogated.
Personhoodtheory chooses a special radical standpoint, for the purpose of getting a solution, which then turns out to deny the problem to be solved.
Personhoodtheory is a "realism" in that it acknowledges a process of coping that implies a self confronted by objectivities.
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