Reply to Claes G. Ryn

JAN OLOF BENGTSSON, Lund University

Noting that my book is primarily a contribution to the historiography of personalism, Claes Ryn also correctly observes that, and briefly states why, a work in the history of philosophy must always to some extent be shaped by its author's own philosophical convictions. For this reason, Ryn, after saying many kind things about my work in general, goes on, like the authors of the other essays, to deal with it in a way that to a considerable extent requires a response of the kind that makes it necessary for me to assume the role of the philosopher rather than the historian.