The practices of the self
By: Charles Larmore ; translated by Sharon Bowman.
Contributors: Bowman, Sharon, 1973-
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780226468877
Subjects: Self (Philosophy); Self-knowledge, Theory of
Work titles: Pratiques du moi.
Description: Charles Larmore develops a theory of the self that challenges the widespread view that the we always know our own thoughts.
Notes: Translation of: Les pratiques du moi (Paris : Presses universitaires de France, c2004).

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Sartre as guide; title: Bad faith and sincerity; title: The example of Stendhal; title: Reflection and being like another; title: Being natural; title: The ubiquity of convention; title: Being like another; title: Authenticity and the democratic age; title: Mimetism and equality; title: Being oneself amid conventions; title: Authenticity and the nature of the self; title: Foundations of a theory of cognitive reflection; title: Psychological interpretation; title: The structure of cognitive self-reflection; title: The self in cognitive reflection; title: Representing and reasoning; title: A critique of autonomy; title: Obligations and avowals; title: A defense of first-person authority; title: The persistence of the cartesian model; title: The key to the mystery; title: A final problem; title: Ways of being oneself; title: The domain of authenticity; title: The instability of practical reflection; title: Authenticity and conversion; title: How to be virtuous; title: The ends of reflection; title: Reflection and its problems; title: The self and time; title: The importance of unexpected goods; title: Socrates' mistake; title: The limits of prudence; title: Wisdom.