The Person and the Human Mind: Issues in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780198244608 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 296 str.

Christopher Gill

Opis

This collection of essays explores analogous issues in classical and modern philosophy that relate to the concepts of person and human being. A primary focus is whether there are such analogous issues, and whether we can find in ancient philosophy a notion that is comparable to "person" as understood in modern philosophy. Essays on modern philosophy reappraise the validity of the notion of person, while essays on classical philosophy take up the related questions of what being "human" entails in ancient ethics and psychology, and whether we should regard ourselves as, essentially, human or rational beings.

Recenzje

'It is not the least of the merits of this valuable collection to provoke the reader to reflect on the nature of the study to which it makes its own distinctive contribution.' C.C.W. Taylor, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Polis, Vol. 11, No. 1, (1992)

Spis treści

Part One: 'Person' and 'Human Being': the status and interrelationship of the concepts; Amelie Oksenberg Rorty: Persons and Personae; Adam Morton: Why there is no concept of a person; Peter Smith: Human persons; P.F. Snowdon: Persons, animals, and ourselves; Troels Engberg-Pedersen: Stoic philosophy and the concept of the person; Christopher Gill: The human being as an ethical norm; Part Two: The human and the rational mind - models of self-understanding; George Botterill: Human Nature and Fold Psychology; Stephen R. L. Clark: Reason as Daimon; M. R. Wright: Presocratic minds; Christopher Rowe: Philosophy, love, and madness; A. W. Price: Plato and Freud