Patsan V. American Personalism: Genesis, Ideas, Critics

The object is the religious-anthropogenic foundations and meaningful aspects of the creative activity of the founding fathers of American personalism - B. P. Bowne, G. H. Howison and J. Royce - in the horizon of the European metaphysics. The aim is the disclosure of the religious-anthropogenic principles and constructs of the personality's metaphysics of American personalism in the horizon of the European metaphysics. The methods are the principles of historicity, dialogicity, comparativeness, complementarity, discursive approaches, phenomenology, structuralism, topology, dialectics and hermeneutics. The dissertation analysis draws out the meta-ontological dimension of the personalistic worldview revealed in the course of regarding the Biblical problematics, the Patristic Trinitology and the tradition of rendering the Scripture (in particular its English versions such as the Geneva Bible and the Bishops' Bible); anthropic-rationalistic intentions of defining the personhood which produce the transcendental-subjective field of forming American personalism; existential-axiological of defining the personal being in the New World manifested in the poetical-philosophical creativity of W. Whitman; the peculiarities of the personality's metaphysics constructed by B. P. Bowne, G. H. Howison, J. Royce. The study articulates the institutional aspect of the existence of American personalism (the Boston school, the California school, the Harward school). The author reveals the epistemological, ontological and religious-ethical horizons of the personality's metaphysics established in the works of B. P. Bowne, G. H. Howison, J. Royce in their common and particular features. Implementation field: educational process.