Person vs. Individual Difference Between Person and Individual
It is quite common for people to call a person as an individual
and an individual as a person. The two words are often made use
of in place of one anther as if they are synonyms and are found
to be used interchangeably. But these terms are not the same. Is
it that these convey the same meaning, or some differences do
exist between the terms ‘an individual’ and ‘a person’ to
justify the existence of these two different terms? We will know
through this article. The person is derived from persona which
is Greek word for the mask of an actor. In the olden days one
actor had to play more than a single character and different
roles, he just used a mask and the concept of persona grew from
here. It was the word persona that gave birth to the nouns
‘personality’ and ‘person’ in English. The concept of person is
even more primitive than those of mind and body. A person is an
entity who has an ability to think and work and not his mind or
his body respectiv