Self-knowledge : a history

353 Pages·2017·2.027 MB·English

by  Renz, Ursula

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Self- Knowledge
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OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS
Christia Mercer, Columbia University
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Names: Renz, Ursula, editor.
Title: Self-knowledge : a history / edited by Ursula Renz.
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Subjects: LCSH: Self (Philosophy)—History. | Self-knowledge, Theory of—History.
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Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
Reflection I Does Homer’s Odysseus Know Himself?
Tobias Myers 19
1 Self- Knowledge in Plato
Rachana Kamtekar 25
2 Aristotle’s Requisite of Self- Knowledge
Christopher Shields 44
3 Self- Knowledge in Later Stoicism
Marcel van Ackeren 61
4 Self- Knowledge in Plotinus: Becoming Who You Are
Pauliina Remes 78
5 Augustine on Self- Knowledge and Human Subjectivity
Johannes Brachtendorf 96
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6 Self- Knowledge in Scholasticism
Dominik Perler 114
7 Self- Knowledge, Abnegation, and Fulfillment in Medieval Mysticism
Christina Van Dyke 131
8 Socratic Self- Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy
Ursula Renz 146
9 Self- Knowledge and Self- Deception in Modern Moral Philosophy
Aaron Garrett 164
10 Kant’s Ideal of Self- Knowledge
Dina Emundts 183
Reflection II Shelley and the Limit of Self- Knowledge
Laura Quinney 199
11 Self- Knowledge in Kierkegaard
John Lippitt 205
12 Self- Knowledge as Freedom in Schopenhauer and Freud
Bernard Reginster 223
13 Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Project of Transcendental
Self- Knowledge
Dermot Moran 240
Reflection III Romare Bearden and a Collage of Self- Knowledge
Yasmine Espert 259
14 Self- Knowledge in Hermeneutic Philosophy
Charles Guignon 264
15 The First Person and Self- Knowledge in Analytic Philosophy
Sebastian Rödl 280
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Reflection IV Self- Portraiture
Christopher S. Wood 295
Bibliography 301
Index 319
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Series Editor’s Foreword
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