Whiting

First, Second & Other Selves C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In her essay collection First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity, well-known scholar of ancient philosophy Jennifer Whiting uses Aristotle's theories on friendship as a springboard to engage with contemporary philosophical work on personal identity and moral psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199967919
• ISBN-10: 0199967911
• Artikelnr.: 47867753

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Whiting is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

0. Introduction
1. Friends and Future Selves
2. Impersonal Friends
3. Trusting 'First' and 'Second' Selves
4. Back to 'The Self and Future'
5. Personal Identity: non-branching form of 'what matters'
6. One is not Born but Becomes a Person
7. Love: self-propagation, self-preservation or ekstasis?
8. Psychic Contingency in the Republic
Reprint Information
Index