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Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self
Engelsk
Bogcover for Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self af Ulrich Steinvorth, 9780521762748
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
230
ISBN-13:
9780521762748
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
052176274X
Udg. Dato:
22 jun 2009
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 16,0 x 2,0
Oplagsdato:
22 jun 2009
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Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

Engelsk
Hardback 2009
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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.
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
230
ISBN-13:
9780521762748
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
052176274X
Udg. Dato:
22 jun 2009
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 16,0 x 2,0
Oplagsdato:
22 jun 2009
Forfatter(e):
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