Each person individually is called an individual. Well, a person with a strong character zututlichnost, a person with a core. The concepts of "individual", "individuality", "personality" are often used as equivalent words. However, they, being as if synonyms, from the point of view of philosophy have significant differences. The fact is that all these concepts can characterize a person from different angles. So what is an individual, and what is a person or individuality? What are the aspects of man that characterizes each of them? What do these concepts have in common?
What is an individual?
This concept comes from the Latin word individuum, which translates into Russian as "indivisible." It was first introduced by the Roman emperor Cicero as a designation of the Greek term “atom”. That is why it is translated like that. The ancient Greek atomists Leucippus and Democritus explain the concept of the individual as a set of elements of life that are peculiar in quality, which have a certain position and shape. But the ancient Roman scientist Seneca by this term denoted individual creatures, with the further separation of which they may lose their specificity. This word is the antipode of "totality." From the point of view of philosophy, the individual is a separate individual, a human being who is a representative of the species Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens) and which represents the unity of the social and biological. The individual possesses a set of specific qualities that are inherent only to the human being, and is also the bearer of such psychological and social traits as reason, will, consciousness, activity, etc. Thanks to all these qualities, he is identified with others like him - and all of them together constitute social groups, society, etc.
What is personality?
This word also comes from the Latin word individuum. Despite the fact that these two concepts have the same roots, nevertheless the questions: “What is an individual?” and “What is personality?” not equivalent. If an individual is called a separate individual who, by his qualities, is similar to other individuals of the same group, genus, etc., then the individual is called the person’s qualities, unique, peculiar, inherent only to him, by which he is distinguished from other people who belong, nevertheless less to his group. This concept includes two types of properties: inherited and acquired.
The first include those qualities of a person that are inherited by genetic means, and those acquired are those qualities that were formed under the influence of society.
