ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an overview on the limited scholarly contributions on the person. It demonstrates the prospective value of a personalist ethics of disaster resilience. The chapter outlines the main assumptions of personalism and how this can be fruitfully combined with critical realism and disaster resilience. It discusses the central importance of corporeality, sociality and morality as keystone for understanding resilience through personalism. The chapter begins to integrate critical realism and personalism with resilience for the purpose of providing some of the main assumptions for building an argument for a personalist ethics of disaster resilience. It outlines some of the main presuppositions of critical realism in relation to personalism, before narrowing down to a discussion on the three selected capacities of a person: corporeality, sociality and morality. A central aspect of resilience is thus ensuring the survival of a person’s existence in terms of flesh and blood.
