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The Formation of the Modern Self

Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant

By: Felix O Murchadha

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The Formation of the Modern Self

Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant

By: Felix O Murchadha

Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix Ó Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume and Kant. The question of the self as we would discuss it today only came to the forefront of philosophical concern with Modernity, beginning with an appeal to the inherited models of the self found in Stoicism, Scepticism, Augustinianism and Pelagianism, before continuing to develop as a subject of philosophical debate. Exploring this trajectory, The Formation of the Modern Self pursues a number of themes central to the Early Modern development of selfhood, including, amongst others, grace and passion. It examines on the one hand the deep-rooted dependence on the divine and the longing for happiness and salvation and, on the other hand, the distancing from the Stoic ideal of apatheia, as philosophers from Descartes to Spinoza recognised the passions as essential to human agency. Fundamental to the new question of the self was the relation of faith and reason. Uncovering commonalities and differences amongst Early Modern philosophers, Ó Murchadha traces how the voluntarism of Modernity led to the sceptical approach to the self in Montaigne and Hume and how this sceptical strand, in turn, culminated in Kant's rational faith. More than a history of the self in philosophy, The Formation of the Modern Self inspires a fresh look at self-identity, uncovering not only how our modern idea of selfhood developed but just how embedded the concept of self is in external considerations: from ethics, to reason, to religion.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350245488

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9781350245488

The Time of Revolution

Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger

By: Felix O Murchadha

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The Time of Revolution

Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger

By: Felix O Murchadha

The Time of Revolution presents Heidegger as fundamentally rethinking the temporal character of revolutionary action and radical transformation.

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261

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A&C Black

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1441102469

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9781441102461

The Einstein Equations and the Large Scale Behavior of Gravitational Fields

50 Years Of The Cauchy Problem In General Relativity

By: Piotr T. Chruściel,Helmut Felix Friedrich

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The Einstein Equations and the Large Scale Behavior of Gravitational Fields

50 Years Of The Cauchy Problem In General Relativity

By: Piotr T. Chruściel,Helmut Felix Friedrich

Accompanying DVD-ROM contains the electronic proceedings of the summer school on mathematical general relativity and global properties of solutions of Einstein's equations held at Cargèse, Corsica, France, July 20-Aug. 10, 2002.

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500

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3764371307

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9783764371302

The Formation of the Modern Self

Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant

By: Felix O Murchadha

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Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant

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The Formation of the Modern Self

The Formation of the Modern Self

The Time of Revolution

The Time of Revolution

The Einstein Equations and the Large Scale Behavior of Gravitational Fields

The Einstein Equations and the Large Scale Behavior of Gravitational Fields

The Formation of the Modern Self

The Formation of the Modern Self

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