Richard Sorabji: Self | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780199550135 | Self | Richard Sorabji | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2008

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Over the centuries, the idea of the self has both fascinated and confounded philosophers. From the ancient Greeks, who problematized issues of identity and self-awareness, to Locke and Hume, who popularized minimalist views of the self, to the efforts of postmodernists in our time to decenter the human subject altogether, the idea that there is something called a self has always been in steady decline. But for Richard Sorabji, this negation of the self is dispiriting. In "Self," he sets out to recover the rich variety of positive accounts of the self from Antiquity right up to the present, while offering his own inspiring view of what precisely the self might be.Drawing on Eastern religion, classical Antiquity, and Western philosophy, Sorabji proceeds to tackle a number of thematic debates that have preoccupied philosophers over the ages, including the concept of the self, its sameness and mutability, the idea of the resurrection of the body and spirit, and the fear of death. According to Sorabji, the self is not an undetectable soul or ego, but an embodied individual whose existence is plain to see. It is also neither a linguistic creation nor a psychological fiction, but something that owns both a consciousness and a body. Ultimately, Sorabji argues, the demise of a positive idea of the self stems from much older and more pervasive problems of identity than we realize. Through an astute reading of this tradition, he helps us come to terms with our uneasiness about the subject in an account that will be at the forefront of philosophical debates for years to come.

Über den Autor

Richard Sorabji is Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at King's College London and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Besides co-editing The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions, and editing seventy volumes so far of The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, he is the author of Aristotle on Memory; Necessity, Cause and Blame; Time, Creation and the Continuum; Matter, Space and Motion; Animal Minds and Human Morals; and Emotion and Peace of Mind.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Existence of Self and Philosophical Development of the Idea

1: The Self: is there such a thing?

2: The varieties of self and philosophical development of the idea

II. Personal Identity Over Time

3: Same person in eternal recurrence, resurrection, and teletransportation

4: Stoic fusion and modern fission

5: Memory: Locke's return to Epicureans and Stoics

III. Platonism: Impersonal Selves, Bundles, and Differentiation

6: Is the true self Individual in the Platonist tradition from Plato to Averroes?

7: Bundles and differentiation of individuals

IV. Identity and Persona in Ethics

8: Individual persona vs. universalizability

9: Plutarch: narrative and a whole life

10: Self as practical reason: Epictetus' inviolable self and Aristotle's deliberate choice

V. Self-Awareness

11: Impossibility of self-knowledge

12: Infallibility of self-knowledge: cogito and Flying Man

13: Knowing self through others versus direct and invariable self-knowledge

14: Unity of self-awareness

VI. Ownerless Streams of Consciousness Rejected

15: Why I am not a stream of consciousness

16: The debate between ancient Buddhism and the Nyaya school

VII. Mortality and Loss of Self

17: How might we survive death?

18: Could we survive through time going in a circle?

19: If we do not survive death, is it irrational to feel dismay?

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780199550135
ISBN-10:	0199550131
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sorabji, Richard
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard Sorabji
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.11.2008
Gewicht:	0,549 kg

Artikel-ID: 133174353

Über den Autor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Existence of Self and Philosophical Development of the Idea

1: The Self: is there such a thing?

2: The varieties of self and philosophical development of the idea

II. Personal Identity Over Time

3: Same person in eternal recurrence, resurrection, and teletransportation

4: Stoic fusion and modern fission

5: Memory: Locke's return to Epicureans and Stoics

III. Platonism: Impersonal Selves, Bundles, and Differentiation

6: Is the true self Individual in the Platonist tradition from Plato to Averroes?

7: Bundles and differentiation of individuals

IV. Identity and Persona in Ethics

8: Individual persona vs. universalizability

9: Plutarch: narrative and a whole life

10: Self as practical reason: Epictetus' inviolable self and Aristotle's deliberate choice

V. Self-Awareness

11: Impossibility of self-knowledge

12: Infallibility of self-knowledge: cogito and Flying Man

13: Knowing self through others versus direct and invariable self-knowledge

14: Unity of self-awareness

VI. Ownerless Streams of Consciousness Rejected

15: Why I am not a stream of consciousness

16: The debate between ancient Buddhism and the Nyaya school

VII. Mortality and Loss of Self

17: How might we survive death?

18: Could we survive through time going in a circle?

19: If we do not survive death, is it irrational to feel dismay?

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780199550135
ISBN-10:	0199550131
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sorabji, Richard
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press (UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard Sorabji
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.11.2008
Gewicht:	0,549 kg