Self Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death

Name: Self Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death
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ISBN: 9780226768267

ISBN-10: 0226768260

ISBN-13: 9780226768267

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard Sorabji

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Drawing on classical antiquity and Western and Eastern philosophy, Richard Sorabji tackles inSelf the question of whether there is such a thing as the individual self or only a stream of consciousness. According to Sorabji, the self is not an undetectable soul or ego, but an embodied individual whose existence is plain to see. Unlike a mere stream of consciousness, it is something that owns not only a consciousness but also a body. Sorabji traces historically the retreat from a positive idea of self and draws out the implications of these ideas of self on the concepts of life and death, asking: Should we fear death? How should our individuality affect the way we live? Through an astute…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Richard Sorabjiis honorary fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford University and fellow and emeritus professor at King's College London. He is the editor of over one hundred books and author of fifteen books.



List of abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Existence of Self and philosophical development of the idea



The Self: is there such a thing?



The varieties of self and philosophical development of the idea



Personal identity over time



Same person in eternal recurrence, resurrection, and teletransportation



Stoic fusion and modern fission: Survival cannot depend on what happens to someone else



Memory: Locke's return to Epicureans and Stoics



Platonism: impersonal selves, bundles, and differentiation



Is the true self individual in the Platonist tradition from Plato to Averroes?



Bundles and differentiation of individuals



Identity and persona in ethics



Individual persona vs. universalizability



Plutarch: narrative and a whole life



Self as practical reason: Epictetus' inviolable self and Aristotle's deliberate choice



Self-awareness



Impossibility of self-knowledge



Infallibility of self-knowledge: Cogito and Flying Man



Knowing self through others versus direct and invariable self-knowledge



Unity of self-awareness



Ownerless streams of consciousness rejected



Why I am not a stream of consciousness



The debate between ancient Buddhism and the Nyaya school



Mortality and loss of self



How might we survive death?



Could we survive through time going in a circle?



If we do not survive death, is it irrational to feel dismay?


Table of thinkers


Select bibliography of secondary literature


General index


Index locorum