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BL
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1039975
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b794345
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Steinvorth, Ulrich.
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Rethinking the Western understanding of the self /\ Ulrich Steinvorth.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (vii, 222 pages)
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0511592094
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: 052176274X
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: 1107193885
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: 1139175254
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: 9780511592096
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: 9780511593024
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: 9780511651069
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: 9780521757072
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: 9780521762748
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: 9781107193888
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: 9781139175258
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9780521757072
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9780521762748
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The West and the self -- Basics of philosophical psychology. Heideggerian and Cartesian self -- Free will -- Cartesian, Lockean, and Kantian self -- Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality -- The Cartesian self in history. The cause and content of modernity -- The second-stage rationality in history -- Economic rationality -- The Cartesian self in the twentieth century -- Value spheres. A diagnosis and therapy for modernity -- Value spheres defined and the state -- The serving spheres -- Technology -- Utilitarian or Cartesian approach -- The media and the professions -- Science -- Art and religion -- Sport -- Latin and absolute love -- A self-understanding not only for the West. Is the core idea of modernity realizable at all? -- Harnessing extraordinariness -- Cartesian modernity -- The undivided, universally developed individual -- The end of history?
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| Abstract
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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. 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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Descartes, René,1596-1650.
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Descartes, René,1596-1650.
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Self (Philosophy)-- Europe.
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Jaget-- teori, filosofi.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Mind Body.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Personality.
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Self (Philosophy)
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Philosophische Psychologie.
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Philosophische Psychologie.
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Selbst.
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Selbst.
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Selbsterkenntnis.
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Selbsterkenntnis.
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Europe.
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Westliche Welt.
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Westliche Welt.
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| Dewey Classification
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126.09
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BD438.5.S74 2009
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5,1ssgn
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CC 5500rvk
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CC 6000rvk
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