ABSTRACT
Personality is pre-eminently what it is for others. It is for oneself only in so far as the self-discernment of the special person reaches; and this does not reach far. Were the Being of one's personality bound to one's moral self-consciousness, there would be little personality in the world. In truth there is much more of it than human consciousness conceives. The significance of individuality in relation to personality has not yet been clearly presented. A communal being, an institution, a situation, a thing also, is individual. Only an individual person is a personality. Independently of all valuational discernment, in every person at every moment a specific disparity between the ideal personality, as a value, and the real. The more richly and highly the personality is individualized, so much the more does it permeate the realm of values with its many-sided system of preferences.
