The Self

2021 Philosophy

Author : Patricia Kitcher
Release : 2021
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 269/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Self by : Patricia Kitcher

Download or read book The Self written by Patricia Kitcher. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No philosophical dictum is better known than Descartes's assertion about the intimate relation between thinking and existing. What remains unknown is how we are to understand the 'I' who thinks and exists. This book is about the ways that the concept of an 'I' or a 'self' has been developed and deployed at different times in the history of Western Philosophy. It also offers a striking contrast case, the 'interconnected' self, who appears in some expressions of African Philosophy. Appealing to philosophy to illuminate the concept of a 'self' may seem unnecessary. Anyone who can read this book is a self, so why can we not just tailor a concept to fit what we already know about ourselves? This objection has considerable force and provides a constraint on efforts to fashion a self-concept. Although there is a sense of 'self-knowledge' in which it is said to require a lifetime of serious effort to achieve (and which is the topic of another volume in this series), what is at issue here is simply knowing that one is a self"--

Self-knowledge

2017 Self (Philosophy)

Author : Ursula Renz
Release : 2017
Genre : Self (Philosophy)
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Book Rating : 412/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Self-knowledge written by Ursula Renz. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry. At the same time, some sort of self-knowledge is often regarded as a necessary condition of our being a human agent or human subject. Thus self-knowledge is taken to constitute both the beginning and the end of humans' search for wisdom, and as such it is intricately bound up with the very idea of philosophy. Not surprisingly therefore, the Delphic injunction 'Know thyself' has fascinated philosophers of different times, backgrounds, and tempers. But how can we make sense of this imperative? What is self-knowledge and how is it achieved? What are the structural features that distinguish self-knowledge from other types of knowledge? What role do external, second- and third-personal, sources of knowledge play in the acquisition of self-knowledge? How can we account for the moral impact ascribed to self-knowledge? Is it just a form of anthropological knowledge that allows agents to act in accordance with their aims? Or, does self-knowledge ultimately ennoble the self of the subjects having it? Finally, is self-knowledge, or its completion, a goal that may be reached at all? The book addresses these questions in fifteen chapters covering approaches of many philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Edmund Husserl or Elisabeth Anscombe. The short reflections inserted between the chapters show that the search for self-knowledge is an important theme in literature, poetry, painting and self-portraiture from Homer.

How to Survive Middle School: U.S. History

2022-05-03 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Rebecca Ascher-Walsh
Release : 2022-05-03
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 442/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis How to Survive Middle School: U.S. History by : Rebecca Ascher-Walsh

Download or read book How to Survive Middle School: U.S. History written by Rebecca Ascher-Walsh. This book was released on 2022-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THINK U.S. HISTORY IS HARD? Make learning easy with this do-it-yourself study guide that includes everything kids need to know to tackle middle school U.S. History! Learning is an adventure both inside and outside of the classroom with the How to Survive Middle School study guide series! These colorful, highly visual books cover all the essential info kids need to ace important middle school classes. Large topics are broken down into easy-to-digest chunks, and reflective questions help kids check understanding and become critical thinkers. Written by middle school teachers and vetted by curriculum experts, this series is the perfect school supplement or homeschool resource—and a great way to help create independent learners. HTSMS: U.S. History includes key facts and super-helpful illustrations, maps, and vocab that explore topics including: Native American Peoples European Colonies and the Declaration of Independence Civil War World Wars I & II The Great Depression The Cold War Civil Rights The Vietnam War and more! Books also available for: World History, English, Math, and Science.

Histories of the Self

2018-07-04 History

Author : Penny Summerfield
Release : 2018-07-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 299/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Histories of the Self written by Penny Summerfield. This book was released on 2018-07-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of the Self interrogates historians’ work with personal narratives. It introduces students and researchers to scholarly approaches to diaries, letters, oral history and memoirs as sources that give access to intimate aspects of the past. Historians are interested as never before in how people thought and felt about their lives. This turn to the personal has focused attention on the capacity of subjective records to illuminate both individual experiences and the wider world within which narrators lived. However, sources such as letters, diaries, memoirs and oral history have been the subject of intense debate over the last forty years, concerning both their value and the uses to which they can be put. This book traces the engagement of historians of the personal with notions of historical reliability, and with the issue of representativeness, and it explores the ways in which they have overcome the scepticism of earlier practitioners. It celebrates their adventures with the meanings of the past buried in personal narratives and applauds their transformation of historical practice. Supported by case studies from across the globe and spanning the fifteenth to twenty-first centuries, Histories of the Self is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the ways personal testimony has been and can be used by historians.

Rewriting the Self

2015-08-20 Literary Criticism

Author : Mark Freeman
Release : 2015-08-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 640/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Rewriting the Self written by Mark Freeman. This book was released on 2015-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993. This book explores the process by which individuals reconstruct the meaning and significance of past experience. Drawing on the lives of such notable figures as St Augustine, Helen Keller and Philip Roth as well as on the combined insights of psychology, philosophy and literary theory, the book sheds light on the intricacies and dilemmas of self-interpretation in particular and interpretive psychological enquiry more generally. The author draws upon selected, mainly autobiographical, literary texts in order to examine concretely the process of rewriting the self. Among the issues addressed are the relationship of rewriting the self to the concept of development, the place of language in the construction of selfhood, the difference between living and telling about it, the problem of facts in life history narrative, the significance of the unconscious in interpreting the personal past, and the freedom of the narrative imagination. Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award winner in 1994

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