Man is the theme of «I and Reason» (reason as a synthesis of mind and morality). When will you become human? (when you become reasonable and decent, like other people). Personality is the theme of «Me and the Environment», freedom from the suppression of the environment, choosing one’s own path and making one’s own decisions. When will you become an individual? (when will you start to live with your head, make your decisions?)
There may be a bright, free, strong personality and, to a small extent, a person — for example, a bandit.
There may be a reasonable and decent person, to a small extent a person — a good man in the street. Normal healthy body…
Man as an organism and man as a person
Interacting with the outside world, a person sometimes behaves like an organism, sometimes manifests himself as a person. The human body can only react; behaves, carries out behavior and activity — a person as a person. The body has needs, goals and values - only a person has. A person as an organism more often feels and feels, a person as a person uses his mind more often: he thinks and makes decisions. A person as a person does not live by needs, but by what is dear to him, by his values. And values are always external: his home or country, his parents or children, his beloved or beloved. And also his projects, his work, his mission — that big thing for which he lives, which gives his life meaning, and not just satisfaction. We eat to live, but we don’t live to eat! See →
Man and several personalities
It is normal to consider the situation that several personalities can coexist in one person. See →