John Barresi

Naturalization of the Soul

Self and Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century

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Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first book to emphasize the enormous intellectual transformation in the eighteenth century, when the religious 'soul' was replaced first by a philosophical 'self' and then by a scientific 'mind'. The authors show that many supposedly contemporary theories of the self were actually discussed in the eighteenth century, and recognize the status of William Hazlitt as one of the most important Personal Identity theorists of the British Enlightenment, for his… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Martin, Raymond

ISBN: 978-1-134-60603-0
EAN: 9781134606030
Produktnummer: 14486791
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'361 KB

Über den Autor

Raymond Martin is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, US. John Barresi is Professor of Psychology at Dalhousie University, Canada.