Rise and Fall of Soul and Self An Intellectual History of Personal Identity

Name: Rise and Fall of Soul and Self An Intellectual History of Personal Identity
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ISBN: 9780231137454

ISBN-10: 0231137451

ISBN-13: 9780231137454

Edition: 2008

Authors: Raymond Martin, John Barresi

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This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. The authors open with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and Renaissance philosophers, including St. Paul, Philo, Augustine, Aquinas, and Montaigne. In their coverage of…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Raymond Martin is professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Union College. He is the author of several books, including Self-Concern: An Experiential Approach to What Matters in Survival.John Barresi is retired professor of psychology and philosophy at Dalhousie University and the coauthor (with Raymond Martin) of Naturalization of the Soul: Self and Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century.



Introduction



From Myth to Science



Individualism and Subjectivity



People of the Book



Resurrected Self



The Stream Divides



Aristotelian Synthesis



Care of the Soul



Mechanization of Nature



Naturalizing the Soul



Philosophy of Spirit



Science of Human Nature



Before the Fall



Paradise Lost



Everything That Happened and What it Means


Notes


References


Index of Names


Subject Index