plato's theroy of the forms

Its is difficult to say or give a precise definition of what a person is. While the idea of

a person was around in the Greco- Roman times, it had none of the importance it

came to have later. During Roman times the word person meant a character one

played. However during the 3rd –7th centuries the Christian Church made the

distinction between person and nature become important; the Trinity came to

be understood as one nature and three persons, Christ as two natures and one

person. In modern times the entry of a secular philosophy into the western world has

led to replacing talk about the human soul to talk about the person. According to

David wiggins there are three perspectives on persons: (1) the idea of the person

as the object of biological, anatomical, neurophyiological and other forms of scientific

investigation. (2) the idea of the person as the subject of consciousness. (3) The idea

of the person as the locus of moral attributes a...