Allport, Aristotle and Aquinas: An interdisciplinary definition of personality

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dc.coverageDOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2024.101096
dc.creatorRojas-Saffie, Juan Pablo
dc.creatorGarcía-Matte, Nicolás
dc.creatorSilva-Beyer, Vicente
dc.date2024
dc.date.accessioned05-01-2026 18:16
dc.date.available05-01-2026 18:16
dc.description<p>Countless definitions of personality have been proposed throughout history. As a consequence, contemporary psychology lacks a definition that elicits broad consensus and avoids ambiguity. To overcome this difficulty it seems beneficial to draw on the field of philosophical anthropology, as an epistemologically prior and more general discipline. Understanding that a single manuscript cannot achieve consensus, an interdisciplinary contribution is proposed through a dialogue between two definitions of personality. On the one hand, that elaborated by the father of personality psychology, Gordon Allport, which is the best known and most cited of all. On the other hand, the one developed by Martín Echavarría, inspired by the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. From this interdisciplinary dialogue, a variant of Echavarría's definition and a brief definition of personality are proposed. It is expected that this contribution would not only help to the study of personality, but also to the interdisciplinary development of the discipline of psychology.</p>eng
dc.identifierhttps://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/29d98287-c728-4b45-92c2-f4a98b3f8f9e
dc.languageeng
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.sourcevol.75 (2024)
dc.subjectAristotelian-Thomistic psychology
dc.subjectDefinition of personality
dc.subjectIntegral psychology of the person
dc.subjectPersonality concept
dc.subjectPhilosophical anthropology
dc.subjectPsychological anthropology
dc.titleAllport, Aristotle and Aquinas: An interdisciplinary definition of personalityeng
dc.typeArticleeng
dc.typeArtículospa
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