The Nature of Person: A Comparative Analysis of the Thomist and Vedantic Perspectives on the Ontology of Self: Journal of Vaishnava Studies

Abstract

There are many different questions and problems with which the enterprise of philosophy concerns itself. These realms of inquiry
have included attempts to ascertain the nature of reality, the existence of God, and the dictums and bounds of ethics. For Socrates, the starting point of all philosophical inquiry begins with the imperative to “know thyself.” For without knowing the nature of ourselves, as persons, how, so the argument goes, can we know anything at all?