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First, Second, and Other Selves

Author : Jennifer Whiting
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190631716
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book First, Second, and Other Selves written by Jennifer Whiting and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her essay collection First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity, well-known scholar of ancient philosophy Jennifer Whiting gathers her previously published essays taking Aristotle's theories on friendship as a springboard to engage with contemporary philosophical work on personal identity and moral psychology. Whiting examines three themes throughout the collection, the first being psychic contingency, or the belief that the psychological structures characteristic of human beings may in fact vary, not just from one cultural (or socio-historical) context to another, but also from one individual to another. The second theme is the belief that friendship informs an understanding of the nature of the self, an idea that springs from Whiting's uncommon reading of Aristotle's writings on friendship. Specifically, Whiting explains a scenario in which a "virtuous agent" adopts a kind of impersonal attitude both towards herself and towards her "character" friends, loving both because they are virtuous; this scenario ties in with an examination of the Aristotelian concept of the ideal friend as an "other self," or a friendship that evolves from character rather than ego, as well as Whiting's meditation on whether or not a virtuous individual should have a "special" sort of concern for her own future self, distinct in kind from the concern that she has for others. The third theme is that of rational egoism, a concept that Whiting critiques, especially in the context of Aristotle's eudaimonism. The central tenet of the collection is the message that taking "ethocentric" (or character-based) attitudes both towards ourselves and towards our friends sheds light on the nature of personal identity and helps to combat ethnocentric and other objectionable forms of bias, a message that is becoming increasingly urgent in light of the recent deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.

First, Second, and Other Selves

Author : Jennifer Whiting
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199967911
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book First, Second, and Other Selves written by Jennifer Whiting and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On Friendship

Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101651156
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book On Friendship written by Michel de Montaigne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 100-part Penguin Great Ideas series comes a rumination on relationships, courtesy of one of the most influential French Renaissance philosophers. Michel de Montaigne was the originator of the modern essay form; in these diverse pieces he expresses his views on friendship, contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, argues that all cultures should be respected, and attempts, by an exploration of himself, to understand the nature of humanity. Penguin Great Ideas: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war, and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked, and comforted. They have enriched lives—and destroyed them. Now Penguin Great Ideas brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals, and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Other titles in the series include Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and Charles Darwin's On Natural Selection.

Other Selves

Author : Paul Schollmeier
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438419074
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Other Selves written by Paul Schollmeier and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-09-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thorough and systematic integration of Aristotle's analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics and Nicomachean Ethics. The author conveys a clear sense of the continuing illumination that Aristotle's analysis of friendship provides to contemporary ethical theorists and to students of Aristotle. Other Selves speaks to both audiences.

Reasons and Persons

Author : Derek Parfit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622443
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Reasons and Persons written by Derek Parfit and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1986-01-23 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own best interests; that most of us have moral views that are directly self-defeating; and that, when we consider future generations the conclusions will often be disturbing. He concludes that moral non-religious moral philosophy is a young subject, with a promising but unpredictable future.

The Second Self

Author : Sherry Turkle
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780671606022
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Second Self written by Sherry Turkle and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1984 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Second Self, Sherry Turkle looks at the computer not as a "tool," but as part of our social and psychological lives; she looks beyond how we use computer games and spreadsheets to explore how the computer affects our awareness of ourselves, of one another, and of our relationship with the world. "Technology," she writes, "catalyzes changes not only in what we do but in how we think." First published in 1984, The Second Self is still essential reading as a primer in the psychology of computation. This twentieth anniversary edition allows us to reconsider two decades of computer culture-to (re)experience what was and is most novel in our new media culture and to view our own contemporary relationship with technology with fresh eyes. Turkle frames this classic work with a new introduction, a new epilogue, and extensive notes added to the original text. Turkle talks to children, college students, engineers, AI scientists, hackers, and personal computer owners-people confronting machines that seem to think and at the same time suggest a new way for us to think-about human thought, emotion, memory, and understanding. Her interviews reveal that we experience computers as being on the border between inanimate and animate, as both an extension of the self and part of the external world. Their special place betwixt and between traditional categories is part of what makes them compelling and evocative. In the introduction to this edition, Turkle quotes a PDA user as saying, "When my Palm crashed, it was like a death. I thought I had lost my mind." Why we think of the workings of a machine in psychological terms-how this happens, and what it means for all of us-is the ever more timely subject of The Second Self. Book jacket.

Other Selves

Author : Michael Pakaluk
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872201132
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Other Selves written by Michael Pakaluk and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .

Why I Write

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724263
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Why I Write written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship

Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139441868
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship written by Lorraine Smith Pangle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central place to Aristotle's searching examination of friendship in the Nicomachean Ethics. Lorraine Pangle argues that the difficulties surrounding this discussion are soon dispelled once one understands the purpose of the Ethics as both a source of practical guidance for life and a profound, theoretical investigation into human nature. The book also provides fresh interpretations of works on friendship by Plato, Cicero, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne and Bacon. The author shows how each of these thinkers sheds light on central questions of moral philosophy: is human sociability rooted in neediness or strength? is the best life chiefly solitary, or dedicated to a community with others? Clearly structured and engagingly written, this book will appeal to a broad swathe of readers across philosophy, classics and political science.

The Self

Author : Jonardon Ganeri
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199652368
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Self written by Jonardon Ganeri and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonardon Ganeri presents a ground-breaking study of selfhood, drawing on Indian theories of consciousness and mind. He explores the notion of embodiment and the centrality of the emotions to the self, and shows how to harmonize the idea of the first-person perspective with a naturalist worldview which encompasses the normative.

Congress of Arts and Science

Author : Howard Jason Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congress of Arts and Science written by Howard Jason Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Getting acquainted with your other self

Author : Eugene Victor Legaren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting acquainted with your other self written by Eugene Victor Legaren and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Self and Others

Author : Ronald David Laing
Publisher : Viking Press
ISBN 13 : 9780140134674
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Self and Others written by Ronald David Laing and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychiatrist studies the patterns of social interaction, paying special attention to the relationship between individual experience and behavior

Our corner, ed. by A. Besant

Author : Annie Besant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Our corner, ed. by A. Besant written by Annie Besant and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

Author : James Hastings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gardeners' Chronicle

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gardeners' Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self

Author : Yuri Corrigan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 081013571X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self written by Yuri Corrigan and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dostoevsky was hostile to the notion of individual autonomy, and yet, throughout his life and work, he vigorously advocated the freedom and inviolability of the self. This ambivalence has animated his diverse and often self-contradictory legacy: as precursor of psychoanalysis, forefather of existentialism, postmodernist avant la lettre, religious traditionalist, and Romantic mystic. Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self charts a unifying path through Dostoevsky's artistic journey to solve the “mystery” of the human being. Starting from the unusual forms of intimacy shown by characters seeking to lose themselves within larger collective selves, Yuri Corrigan approaches the fictional works as a continuous experimental canvas on which Dostoevsky explored the problem of selfhood through recurring symbolic and narrative paradigms. Presenting new readings of such works as The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov, Corrigan tells the story of Dostoevsky’s career-long journey to overcome the pathology of collectivism by discovering a passage into the wounded, embattled, forbidding, revelatory landscape of the psyche. Corrigan’s argument offers a fundamental shift in theories about Dostoevsky's work and will be of great interest to scholars of Russian literature, as well as to readers interested in the prehistory of psychoanalysis and trauma studies and in theories of selfhood and their cultural sources.