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This book presents selected addresses presented before the Personalist Discussion Group meetings held in conjunction with the annual meetings of The American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. It includes the central ideas of American Personalistic Idealism developed during the twentieth century, its major criticisms, and recent developments by philosophers who are either Personalistic Idealists or sympathetic to the position

Part I. Buford : the person and personalist / Thomas O. Buford Autobiography -- "On behalf of poetasters" / Charles Carlo Conti, Thomas O. Buford response -- Fourth generation Boston University personalism : the philosophy of Thomas O. Buford / Randall E. Auxier -- Dancing with Tom / J. Aaron Simmons, Thomas O. Buford response -- Part II. Persons, institutions, and communities -- are institutions persons? : Buford and the primacy of social order / Randall E. Auxier, Thomas O. Buford response -- Faith, philosophy and idols : Thomas O. Buford on the parables of Jesus / James Beauregard, Thomas O. Buford response -- Christianity and intellectual seriousness / Mason Marshall, Thomas O. Buford response -- Freedom for the common good : Danish personalism on democracy and the engaged human / Jonas Norgaard Mortensen, Thomas O. Buford response -- Persons in relation / Eugene Thomas Long, Thomas O. Buford response Part III. Trust and problems of personal existence -- Why should I trust you, Tom Buford? / Richard Prust, Thomas O. B uford response -- Trusting to dance within the nexus / Nathan Riley, Thomas O. Buford response -- Buford and Brightman on trust, suffering, and the non-rational given / James McLachlan, Thomas O. Buford response -- Buford, Kohak, and a renewed understanding of the personal nature of time / John Scott Gray, Thomas O. Buford response -- Death and self-importance / John Lachs, Thomas O. Buford response.