Mitchell S. Green

Know Thyself (eBook, ePUB)

The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317197829
• Artikelnr.: 50402147

Autorenporträt

Mitchell S. Green received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He currently teaches at the University of Connecticut. In addition to approximately 50 journal articles and book chapters, he has also published Self-Expression, Engaging Philosophy: A Brief Introduction, and Moore's Paradox: New Essays on Belief, Rationality and the First Person (co-edited with J. Williams).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Socrates and the Examined Life
2. Descartes' Essence
3. Ryle's Re-Casting of the "Mind-Body Problem"
4. The Freudian Unconscious
5. The Adaptive Unconscious
6. Self-Misleading, Empathy, and Humility
7. Persons: Some Western Approaches
8. No Thyself: A Buddhist Perspective
Glossary of key terms
Bibliography
Name and Subject Index