Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death

ISBN-13: 9780199550135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 414 str.

Richard Sorabji

Opis

Exploring the history of our understanding of the self, which has remained elusive and mysterious throughout the spectacular development of human knowledge of the outside world, this book presents and assesses the insights of a variety of thinkers. On this basis, it rejects the common idea that the self is an illusion.

Recenzje

So rich and complex a work as this can hardly be expected to elicit the complete agreement of any reader, but I am persuaded that it will prove intellectually fecund for all.

O autorze

Richard Sorabji is Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy at King's College London and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. Besides co-editing The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions, and editing seventy volumes so far of The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, he is the author of Aristotle on Memory; Necessity, Cause and Blame; Time, Creation and the Continuum; Matter, Space and Motion; Animal Minds and Human Morals; and Emotion and Peace of Mind.