Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
052176274X
ISBN-13
9780521762748
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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US
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GB
Publication Date
Jun 22nd, 2009
Print length
230 Pages
Weight
43 grams
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23.40 x 16.00 x 2.00 cms
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Social & political philosophySocial and political philosophy
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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.
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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