Rethinking the Western understanding of the self /

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Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean concep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steinvorth, Ulrich
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650.
Self (Philosophy) > Europe.
Moi (Philosophie) > Europe.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
PHILOSOPHY > Mind & Body.
Self (Philosophy)
Philosophische Psychologie
Selbst
Selbsterkenntnis
Jaget > teori, filosofi.
Europe.
Westliche Welt
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The West and the self
  • Basics of philosophical psychology. Heideggerian and Cartesian self
  • Free will
  • Cartesian, Lockean, and Kantian self
  • Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality
  • The Cartesian self in history. The cause and content of modernity
  • The second-stage rationality in history
  • Economic rationality
  • The Cartesian self in the twentieth century
  • Value spheres. A diagnosis and therapy for modernity
  • Value spheres defined and the state
  • The serving spheres
  • Technology
  • Utilitarian or Cartesian approach
  • The media and the professions
  • Science
  • Art and religion
  • Sport
  • Latin and absolute love
  • A self-understanding not only for the West. Is the core idea of modernity realizable at all?
  • Harnessing extraordinariness
  • Cartesian modernity
  • The undivided, universally developed individual
  • The end of history?

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