No Self to be Found : The Search for Personal Identity

Name: No Self to be Found
Brand: University Press of America
SKU: 9780761806684
Price: 11500 KES
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ISBN: 9780761806684

by James Giles

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0761806687

ISBN-13 9780761806684

Publisher University Press of America

Imprint University Press of America

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 24th, 1997

Print length 176 Pages

Weight 222 grams

Dimensions 21.70 x 14.00 x 1.10 cms

Product Classification: Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality The self, ego, identity, personality

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This book is a exploration of the notion of personal identity. Here it is shown how the various attempts to give an account of personal identity are all based on false assumptions and so inevitably run aground. One of the first Western thinkers to realize this was David Hume, the 18th century empiricist philosopher who argued that self was a fiction. A new interpretation of Hume''s no-self theory is put forward by arguing for an eliminative rather than a reductive point of view of personal identity, and by approaching the problem in terms of phenomenology, Buddhist critiques of the notion of the self, and the idea of a constructed self-image. No Self to Be Found explores the problem of personal identity from the most basic level by raising the question of the existence of personal identity itself.

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