Rethinking the Western understanding of the self

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Rethinking the Western understanding of the self

Ulrich Steinvorth

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index

hardback ed: 24 cm

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean conception and utilitarianism. When freed from Cartesian dualism, such a conceptualization enables us to distinguish between self and subject. Moreover, it enables us to understand why individualism - one of the hallmarks of modernity in the West - became a universal ideal to be granted to every member of society; how acceptance of this notion could peak in the seventeenth century; and why it is now in decline, though not irreversibly so. Most importantly, the Cartesian concept of the self presents a way of saving modernity from the dangers that it now encounters.

目次

  • Part I. Introduction: 1. The West and the self
  • Part II. Basics of Philosophical Psychology: 2. Heideggerian and Cartesian self
  • 3. Free will
  • 4. Cartesian, Lockean and Kantian self
  • 5. Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality
  • Part III. The Cartesian Self in History: 6. The cause and content of modernity
  • 7. The second-stage rationality in history
  • 8. Economic rationality
  • 9. The Cartesian self in the 20th century
  • Part IV. Value Spheres: 10. A diagnosis and therapy for modernity
  • 11. Value spheres defined and the state
  • 12. The serving spheres
  • 13. Technology
  • 14. Utilitarian or Cartesian approach
  • 15. The media and other professions
  • 16. Science
  • 17. Art and religion
  • 18. Sport
  • 19. Latin and absolute love
  • Part V. A Self-Understanding Not Only for the West: 20. Liberty and equality
  • 21. Harnessing extraordinariness
  • 22. Cartesian modernity
  • 23. The undivided universally developed individual
  • 24. The end of history?

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