Self-knowledge : a history / edited by Ursula Renz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Renz, Ursula, editor.

Series:

Oxford philosophical concepts.

Oxford philosophical concepts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy)--History.

Self (Philosophy).

Self-knowledge, Theory of--History.

Self-knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 329 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Self-knowledge is often taken to constitute both the beginning and the end of humans' search for wisdom. Not surprisingly, the Delphic injunction 'Know thyself' has fascinated philosophers of different times, backgrounds, and tempers.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Reflection I Does Homer's Odysseus Know Himself? / Tobias Myers

1. Self-Knowledge in Plato / Rachana Kamtekar

2. Aristode's Requisite of Self-Knowledge / Christopher Shields

3. Self-Knowledge in Later Stoicism / Marcel Van Ackeren

4. Self-Knowledge in Plotinus: Becoming Who You Are / Pauliina Remes

5. Augustine on Self-Knowledge and Human Subjectivity / Johannes Brachtendorf

6. Self-Knowledge in Scholasticism / Dominik Perler

7. Self-Knowledge, Abnegation, and Fulfillment in Medieval Mysticism / Christina Van Dyke

8. Socratic Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy / Ursula Renz

9. Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception in Modern Moral Philosophy / Aaron Garrett

10. Kant's Ideal of Self-Knowledge / Dina Emundts

Reflection II Shelley and the Limit of Self-Knowledge / Laura Quinney

11. Self-Knowledge in Kierkegaard / John Lippitt

12. Self-Knowledge as Freedom in Schopenhauer and Freud / Bernard Reginster

13. Husserl's Phenomenology and the Project of Transcendental Self-Knowledge / Dermot Moran

Reflection III Romare Bearden and a Collage of Self-Knowledge / Yasmine Espert

14. Self-Knowledge in Hermeneutic Philosophy / Charles Guignon

15. First Person and Self-Knowledge in Analytic Philosophy / Sebastian Rodl

Reflection IV Self-Portraiture / Christopher S. Wood.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 10, 2016).

Description based on print version of record.

ISBN:

0-19-063055-8

0-19-022644-7

0-19-022643-9