Ancient Philosophy of the Self

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Remes, Pauliina (Editor), Sihvola, Juha (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: The New Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy ; 64
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Epistemology.; Medieval philosophy.; Religion > Philosophy.; Classical Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; Medieval Philosophy.; Philosophy of Man.; Philosophy of Religion.

Pauliina Remes and Juha Sihvola In the course of history, philosophers have given an impressive variety of answers to the question, “What is self?” Some of them have even argued that there is no such thing at all. This volume explores the various ways in which selfhood was approached and conceptuali...

Table of Contents:

• Approaches to Self and Person in Antiquity
• Graeco-Roman Varieties of Self
• The Ancient Self: Issues and Approaches
• Assumptions of Normativity: Two Ancient Approaches to Agency
• From Plato to Plotinus
• Socratic Authority
• Protean Socrates: Mythical Figures in the Euthydemus
• Aristotle on the Individuality of Self
• What Kind of Self Can a Greek Sceptic Have?
• Inwardness and Infinity of Selfhood: From Plotinus to Augustine
• Christian and Islamic Themes
• Philosophy of the Self in the Apostle Paul
• Two Kinds of Subjectivity in Augustine’s Confessions: Memory and Identity, and the Integrated Self
• The Self as Enemy, the Self as Divine: A Crossroads in the Development of Islamic Anthropology
• Locating the Self Within the Soul – Thirteenth-Century Discussions.