The practices of the self /

The practices of the self /

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Author / Creator:Larmore, Charles E.
Uniform title:Pratiques du moi. English
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 201 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Self (Philosophy)
Self-knowledge, Theory of.
Self-knowledge, Theory of.
Self (Philosophy)
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11245118
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ISBN:9780226468549
0226468542
9780226468877
0226468879
1283058359
9781283058353
9786613058355
6613058351
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Larmore, Charles E. Pratiques du moi. English. Practices of the self. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010 9780226468877
Standard no.:10.7208/9780226468549
Table of Contents:
  • Sartre as guide
  • Bad faith and sincerity
  • The example of Stendhal
  • Reflection and being like another
  • Being natural
  • The ubiquity of convention
  • Being like another
  • Authenticity and the democratic age
  • Mimetism and equality
  • Being oneself amid conventions
  • Authenticity and the nature of the self
  • Foundations of a theory of cognitive reflection
  • Psychological interpretation
  • The structure of cognitive self-reflection
  • The self in cognitive reflection
  • Representing and reasoning
  • A critique of autonomy
  • Obligations and avowals
  • A defense of first-person authority
  • The persistence of the cartesian model
  • The key to the mystery
  • A final problem
  • Two ways of being oneself
  • The domain of authenticity
  • The instability of practical reflection
  • Authenticity and conversion
  • How to be virtuous
  • The ends of reflection
  • Reflection and its problems
  • The self and time
  • The importance of unexpected goods
  • Socrates' mistake
  • The limits of prudence
  • Wisdom.

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