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2.11.2021

Perspectives on the Study of Eastern and Western Personhood

Matti Kotiranta & Antti Raunio A commonly held view is that the Western world perceives human beings as being individualistic. ‘Individualism’ may be understood in many ways, but the main question is whether the Western view of human beings is as strongly individualistic as it is often thought (or claimed) to be. This is an […]

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