Title: Ancient philosophy of the self /
Authors: Remes, Pauliina.; Sihvola, Juha.
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Self (Philosophy) History.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Selbst.; Ethik.; Selbst Kongressbericht.; Antike.; Ontologie.
Contents: Introduction / Pauliina Remes and Juha Sihvola -- pt. I, Approaches to self and person in antiquity. Graeco-Roman varieties of self / Richard Sorabji ; The ancient self : issues and approaches / Christopher Gill ; Assumptions of normativity : two ancient approaches to agency / Miira Tuominen -- pt. II, From Plato to Plotinus. Socratic authority / Raphael Woolf ; Protean Socrates : mythical figures in the Euthydemus / Mary Margaret McCabe ; Aristotle on the individuality of self / Juha Sihvola ; What kind of self can a Greek sceptic have? / Richard Bett ; Inwardness and infinity of selfhood : from Plotinus to Augustine / Pauliina Remes -- pt. III, Christian and Islamic themes. Philosophy of the self in the Apostle Paul / Troels Engberg-Pedersen ; Two kinds of subjectivity in Augustine's Confessions : memory and identity, and the integrated self / Gerard J.P. D'Daly ; The self as enemy, the self as divine : a crossroads in the development of Islamic anthropology / Taneli Kukkonen ; Locating the self within the soul : thirteenth-century discussions / Mikko Yrjönsuuri.