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| ISBN: | 9780226468549
0226468542
9780226468877
0226468879
1283058359
9781283058353
9786613058355
6613058351
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | What is the nature of the fundamental relation we have to ourselves that makes each of us a self? To answer this question, Charles Larmore develops a systematic theory of the self, challenging the widespread view that the self's defining relation to itself is to have an immediate knowledge of its own thoughts. On the contrary, Larmore maintains, our essential relation to ourselves is practical, as is clear when we consider the nature of belief and desire. For to believe or desire something consists in committing ourselves to thinking and acting in accord with the presumed truth of our belief o.
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| Other form: | Print version: Larmore, Charles E. Pratiques du moi. English. Practices of the self. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010 9780226468877
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| Standard no.: | 10.7208/9780226468549
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