ABSTRACT
Many theologians, and many philosophers in the Continental tradition of philosophy, stress the fundamentally relational character of personhood.1 Some go farther than simply stressing the relational character of personhood; they seem to suggest jettisoning a “substance ontology” (an ontology of individuals) in favor of a “relational ontology” tout court. For the most part, philosophical accounts of personhood in the analytic tradition of philosophy, like my own, have had little if anything to say about relationality as an essential feature of human personhood.
