ABSTRACT
Every individual human being is thought to consist of four different parts: the ‘person’ (persona), the ‘spirit’ (espíritu), the ‘soul’ (alma), and the ‘body’ (cuerpo). The person is represented by the individual’s congenital traits and culturally conditioned characteristics. It is his ‘personality’ (personalidad, carácter), his unique way of feeling, thinking, and acting. Man is thought to be born evil, and it is this innate part of his person which contains evilness, whereas the acquired part, his ‘education’, tends to suppress this inclination and to steer the person toward the good. To do good or evil is thought to depend exclusively upon the ‘person’ which does so quite consciously.
