TY - JOUR AB - I reconstruct Buber’s conception of personhood and identify in his work four criteria for personhood—(i) uniqueness, (ii) wholeness, (iii) goodness, and (iv) a drive to relation—and an account of three basic degrees of personhood, stretching, as a kind of “chain of being,” from plants and animals, through humans, to God as the absolute person. I show that Buber’s “new” conception of personhood is rooted in older Neoplatonic notions, such the goodness of all being and the principle of plenitude. While other philosophers have used reason and memory to distinguish persons, I find that Buber instead takes these to be specific to humanity, and I explore Buber’s account of a “fall” from a state of nature into a historical mode, such that our humanity threatens our personhood. AD - Department of Philosophy, Manhattan College, 4513 Manhattan College Parkway, Riverdale, NY, 10463, USA sarah.scott@manhattan.edu AU - Scott, Sarah C7 - 02 DO - 10.5840/forphil201419110 KW - Buber, Martin; God; memory; Neoplatonism; person LA - en M1 - 1 M3 - Article PY - 2014 RN - Atterton, Peter. “Face-to-Face with the Other Animal?” In Levinas and Buber, edited by Peter Atterton, Matthew Calarco, and Maurice S. Friedman, 262–281. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2004. Atterton, Peter, Matthew Calarco, and Maurice S. Friedman, eds. Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 2004. Avnon, Dan. Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Biemann, Asher D. Inventing New Beginnings: On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Braiterman, Zachary. The Shape of Revelation: Aesthetics and Modern Jewish Thought. 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