Ancient Philosophy of the Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Philosophy of the Self write by Pauliina Remes. This book was released on 2008-08-26. Ancient Philosophy of the Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 conceptualised in antiquity. How did the ancients understand what it is that I am, fundamentally, as an acting and affected subject, interpreting the world around me, being distinct from others like and unlike me? The authors hi- light the attempts in ancient philosophical sources to grasp the evasive character of the specifically human presence in the world. They also describe how the ancient philosophers understood human agents as capable of causing changes and being affected in and by the world. Attention will be paid to the various ways in which the ancients conceived of human beings as subjects of reasoning and action, as well as responsible individuals in the moral sphere and in their relations to other people. The themes of persistence, identity, self-examination and self-improvement recur in many of these essays. The articles of the collection combine systematic and historical approaches to ancient sources that range from Socrates to Plotinus and Augustine.
Greek Models of Mind and Self
Greek Models of Mind and Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek Models of Mind and Self write by A. A. Long. This book was released on 2015-01-05. Greek Models of Mind and Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A. A. Long’s study of Greek notions of mind and human selfhood is anchored in questions of universal interest. What happens to us when we die? How is the mind or soul related to the body? Are we responsible for our own happiness? Can we achieve autonomy? Long shows that Greek thinkers’ modeling of the mind gave us metaphors that we still live by.
Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy
Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy write by Fiona Leigh. This book was released on 2020-02-28. Self-Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Self-knowledge - a person's knowledge of their own thoughts, character, and psychological states - has long been a central focus of philosophical enquiry. The concerns which occupy ancient thinkers with regard to self-knowledge, however, diverge in critical ways from contemporary investigations on the topic. In this volume, based upon the eighth Keeling Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, leading scholars explore the treatment of self-knowledge in ancient Greek thought, particularly in Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic thinkers, and Plotinus. A number of chapters identify specific modes of self-knowledge in ancient thought, such as knowledge of one's individual moral or political character in Plato, or one's own discursive thought as compared to that arising from the self-presence of intellect in Plotinus. Others identify interesting points of convergence with contemporary thinking to make interventions in existing debates as well as to articulate new research questions, such as whether Plato regarded self-knowledge as synoptic and diachronic in the Republic, or whether self-knowledge is a condition on virtue for Aristotle. By exploring the distinctions between the fundamental assumptions and conceptual frameworks in which ancient and modern philosophers examine self-knowledge, this volume makes a novel contribution to current scholarship in the field.
Self
Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self write by Richard Sorabji. This book was released on 2008-09-26. Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on classical antiquity and Western and Eastern philosophy, Richard Sorabji tackles in Self the question of whether there is such a thing as the individual self or only a stream of consciousness. According to Sorabji, the self is not an undetectable soul or ego, but an embodied individual whose existence is plain to see. Unlike a mere stream of consciousness, it is something that owns not only a consciousness but also a body. Sorabji traces historically the retreat from a positive idea of self and draws out the implications of these ideas of self on the concepts of life and death, asking: Should we fear death? How should our individuality affect the way we live? Through an astute reading of a huge array of traditions, he helps us come to terms with our uneasiness about the subject of self in an account that will be at the forefront of philosophical debates for years to come. “There has never been a book remotely like this one in its profusion of ancient references on ideas about human identity and selfhood . . . . Readers unfamiliar with the subject also need to know that Sorabji breaks new ground in giving special attention to philosophers such as Epictetus and other Stoics, Plotinus and later Neoplatonists, and the ancient commentators on Aristotle (on the last of whom he is the world's leading authority).”—Anthony A. Long, Times Literary Supplement
Ancient Self-Refutation
Ancient Self-Refutation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Self-Refutation write by Luca Castagnoli. This book was released on 2010-09-30. Ancient Self-Refutation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book-length treatment provides a unified account of what is distinctive in the ancient approach to the self-refutation argument.
