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Ancient Philosophy of the Self

Pauliina Remes and Juha Sihvola In the course of history, philosophers have given an impressive variety of answers to the question, "What is self?" Some of them have even argued that there is no such thing at all. This volume explores the various ways in which selfhood was approached and c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Remes, Pauliina (Editor ), Sihvola, Juha (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy, 64
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Approaches to Self and Person in Antiquity
  • Graeco-Roman Varieties of Self
  • The Ancient Self: Issues and Approaches
  • Assumptions of Normativity: Two Ancient Approaches to Agency
  • From Plato to Plotinus
  • Socratic Authority
  • Protean Socrates: Mythical Figures in the Euthydemus
  • Aristotle on the Individuality of Self
  • What Kind of Self Can a Greek Sceptic Have?
  • Inwardness and Infinity of Selfhood: From Plotinus to Augustine
  • Christian and Islamic Themes
  • Philosophy of the Self in the Apostle Paul
  • Two Kinds of Subjectivity in Augustine's Confessions: Memory and Identity, and the Integrated Self
  • The Self as Enemy, the Self as Divine: A Crossroads in the Development of Islamic Anthropology
  • Locating the Self Within the Soul - Thirteenth-Century Discussions.