ABSTRACT
The metaphysic of personality lies within the nature of what is demonstrable and nothing in any way speculative has been added to it. It contains a critical minimum of metaphysics. Personalistic metaphysics may be of different origins. Something of it lurks in every theistic view of the world. But in theism its basis is not ethical but religious. The Stoic doctrine of the Logos, although itself not yet properly personalistic, prepared the way for it and created its categories. In the unity of the consummation the acts are fundamentally joined. An isolated act is a psychological abstraction. In actuality—and the consummation of an act is its actuality—there is no isolation. For acts, in the unitary achievement of which personality consists, are nothing but transcendent acts; they are directed to objects, and herein they carry in themselves the centrality of the subject. None the less subjectivity and personality are fundamentally different.
