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Know thyself : an essay in social personalism / Thomas O. Buford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buford, Thomas O., 1932-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-knowledge, Theory of.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Personalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Know Thyself: An Essay in Social Personalism proposes that social Personalism can best provide for self-knowledge. In the West, self-knowledge has been sought within the framework of two dominant intellectual traditions, order and the emerging self. On the one hand, ancient and medieval philosophers living in an orderly hierarchical society, governed by honor and shame, and bolstered by the metaphysics of being and rationalism, believed persons gain self-knowledge through uniting with the ground of t
- Contents:
- Gnothi seauton and the problem of suspicion
- Our haunting hopes
- A new master image
- Whole persons and the natural
- Society and culture
- The personal
- Dancing
- Broken dances.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-32390-7
- 1-283-44690-1
- 9786613446909
- 0-7391-4620-3
- OCLC:
- 775302629
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