This work is a sequel to the author's Critical Ontology: An Introductory Essay (2002), in which he propounded a new method of philosophizing called Critical Ontology. The present book is an attempt to look at and understand the human person, using the method of critical ontology. The being-principle of the human person is interpreted and understood as relationality. To be human is to be relational. Humanity is relationality.

A human person, as an embodied conscious being, stands in relationality with the world and other humans. The human being is a being-in-relationship. We live our life in relationship with the world around us, particularly with other humans, and make sense and satisfaction of life.

Human life, in its relationship with the world, takes on a triple relationality, viz. epistemic, ontic and ethic. I exist, I know (and act upon) the world, and I deal with other humans - these constitute our lived experience. They are respectively the ontic, epistemic and ethic dimensions of our existence. Using the method of critical ontology, the present study attempts to uncover this triple relationality of human existence. Contents of the Book:

1. Critical Ontology
2. Epistemic Relationality
3. Ontic Relationality
4. Ethic Relationality

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