  Relation is proper only to the person. Personalism has endeavored to highlight this aspect of personhood and bring it to the fore. It is central to personalism’s reaction against and endeavor to overcome the polarization of individualism on the one hand and collectivism on the other. Personalists consider human beings as a “beings for others” or “beings with others.” Relationship is not an optional accessory for the human person, but is essential to his personhood. He is a being-for-relation.