Individualism

Over the years different philosophers have proffered answers to the question “who is a person?” However, given the contradictory theories offered by these various thinkers such as Rene Descartes, Segun Gbadegesin, Kwame Gyekye and Mogobe Ramose, the problem seems to have eluded any attempt at resolving it. In African philosophy, Wiredu’s idea of the Akan notion of a person marks a watershed to the discuss on a personhood.resent scholars like Osemwengie and Asia explored the Edo notion of a person and Obinyan on his part examined the notion of Oria in Esan ontology. However, with the method of hermeneutics, this study crystallizes Ifeanyi Menkiti’s notion of a person and argues with the fact in forms a defense and a better approach to the problem of personhood. This work concludes in line with Menkiti that an understanding of the qualitative relationship between a person and a community cannot be ignored in defining personhood.