The realizations of the self / Andrea Altobrando, Takuya Niikawa, Richard Stone, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Altobrando, Andrea, editor.

Niikawa, Takuya, editor.

Stone, Richard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-realization.

Physical Description:

ix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

Recent discussions of self-realization have devolved into unscientific theories of self-help. However, this vague and often misused concept is connected to many important individual and social problems. As long as its meaning remains unclear, it can be abused for social, political, and commercial malpractices. To combat this issue, this book shares perspectives from scholars of various philosophical traditions. each chapter takes new steps in asking what the meaning of self-realization is - both in terms of what it means to understand who or what one is, and also in terms of how one can, or should, fulfill oneself. The conceptual elucidations achieved from both theoretical and practical perspectives allow for a more mature awareness of how to deal with discourses on self-realization and, in any case, can help to demystify the subject.

Contents:

Introduction / Andrea Altobrando, Takuya Niikawa and Richard Stone. Part 1 Understanding the self : Is there a true self? / Akiko Frischhut

Non-contextual self: Husserl and Nishida on the primal mode of the self / Shigeru Taguchi

Habits and the diachronic structure of the self / Michael G. Butler and Shaun Gallagher

Is our self temporal? From the temporal features of the brain's neural activity to self-continuity and personal identity / Georg Northoff

Self-realization of the economic agent / Gilles Campagnolo. Part 2 Intermezzo: speaking of oneself : The unstoried life / Galen Strawson

Muddling through: an episodic conversation on self, narrativity, transcience, and other pleasantries / Galen Strawson and Andrea Altobrando. Part 3 Fulfilling the self : Stoic happiness as self-activity / Tomohiko Kondo

Realizing oneself by realizing what one really wants to do / Yudai Suzuki

Three liberal conceptions of self-realization: creativity, authenticity and flourishing / Lidia de Tienda Palop

Rights and persons / Pierfrancesco Biasetti

Achieving a self-satisfied intimate life through computer technologies? / Nicola Liberati

Nishida Kitarō, Takahashi Satomi and the Schelerian philosophy of love / Ching-Yuen Cheung

Self-realization as self-abandonment / Richard Stone. Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

3319946994

9783319946993

OCLC:

1037810627