What is "personalism"

Personalism \Per"son*al*ism\, n. The quality or state of being personal; personality. [R.]

n. (context philosophy English) A doctrine of subjective idealism that regards personality as the means of interpreting reality.

Personalism is a philosophical school of thought searching to describe the uniqueness of 1) God as Supreme Person or 2) a human person in the world of nature, specifically in relation to animals. One of the main points of interest of personalism is human subjectivity or self-consciousness, experienced in a person's own acts and inner happenings—in "everything in the human being that is internal, whereby each human being is an eyewitness of its own self".

Other principles:

1. Persons have unique value, and
2. Only persons have free will

According to idealism there is one more principle

1. Only persons are real (in the ontological sense).