Post by halibutholysoap on May 21, 2013 15:38:22 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural
"Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic." - wikipedia users
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_person
In jurisprudence, a natural person is a real human being, as opposed to a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity) or public (i.e., government) organization.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person
A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in different times and places* **.
The current concept of person was developed during the Trinitarian and Christological debates of the IV and V centuries in contrast to the word natura. Christus (the Λรณγος/"Verbum") and God were defined as different "persons" This concept was applied later to the Holy Ghost, the angels and to all human beings.
In addition to the question of personhood, there are further questions about personal identity: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as he or she was or will be at another time despite any intervening changes.
**The common plural of "person", "people", is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), so the plural "persons" is often used in contexts which require precision such as philosophical and legal writing.
*In ancient Rome, the word "persona" (Latin) or "prosopon" (πρόσωπον: Greek) originally referred to the masks worn by actors on stage. The various masks represented the various "personae" in the stage play.
"Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic." - wikipedia users
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_person
In jurisprudence, a natural person is a real human being, as opposed to a legal person, which may be a private (i.e., business entity) or public (i.e., government) organization.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person
A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in different times and places* **.
The current concept of person was developed during the Trinitarian and Christological debates of the IV and V centuries in contrast to the word natura. Christus (the Λรณγος/"Verbum") and God were defined as different "persons" This concept was applied later to the Holy Ghost, the angels and to all human beings.
In addition to the question of personhood, there are further questions about personal identity: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as he or she was or will be at another time despite any intervening changes.
**The common plural of "person", "people", is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), so the plural "persons" is often used in contexts which require precision such as philosophical and legal writing.
*In ancient Rome, the word "persona" (Latin) or "prosopon" (πρόσωπον: Greek) originally referred to the masks worn by actors on stage. The various masks represented the various "personae" in the stage play.