ABSTRACT
We discussed the need for a new form of personalism—one that could meet the demands of the coming new age of globalized technocracies, intelligent machines, ecological crises, and even potentially becoming a multi-planet species. We briefly surveyed the works of previous personalist thinkers and identified several elements that an eschatological personalism would benefit from, including an account of the origins and metaphysical status of personhood; an account of the unity of consciousness based on agency or the agent intellect; an account of the nature and structure of subjectivity; and the role that meaning, value-seeking, and love plays in constituting persons. What was missing from these previous personalisms was an awareness of the eschatological age we now find ourselves in, a consistent account of autarchy or the self-rule (which follows logically from the grounding of personhood in the agent intellect; see below), a personalist philosophy of technology, and an account of the relation of that sovereign individual to the state and the rise of the intelligent machines. A new personalism most importantly would require some explication of the metaphysical and theological basis for the assertion that the personal is the key to all reality and is the ultimate value.
