I’m finding this extremely generative for thinking about GenAI in organisations. From Being Human in a Virtual Society loc 1500:
Traditional humanism: The human person is a self-sufficient substance that is realized in society according to nature (the goods of relationship exist as a virtue of the people through which they pursue their perfection and the common good) (substantialist ontology)
Anti-essentialist humanism (or anti-humanism): The person does not have a given nature but is socially constructed through her ability to differentiate herself by her own opposition to the Other (relational goods are pure events) (dialectical ontology)
Relational humanism: The essence of the human person is that of an original intransitive constitution that emerges from the relationship of the Self with an Other that constitutes it ‘relationally’ (relational goods belong to the reality of the Third) (relational ontology)
