Emmanuel Mounier (1905 - 1950) was a French thinker and writer. He was Director of the Catholic review Esprit, the organ of the Personalist movement. Mounier wrote "The Personalist Manifesto" and "Traité du caractère".

> A personalist civilization is one whose structure and spirit are directed towards the development as persons of all the individuals constituting it. They have as their ultimate end to enable every individual to live as a person, that is, to exercise a maximum of initiative, responsibility, and spiritual life.

## See also[edit]

* Baldomero Ortoneda
* Ignatius of Loyola
* Father John Corapi

## External links[edit]

* Emmanuel Mounier and the Awakening of Black Africa
* Emmanuel Mounier and Personalism
* Emmanuel Mounier