Stefaan E. Cuypers

Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy

An Analytical Anthropology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This title was first published in 2001: We are all persons or selves. But what exactly does it mean that we possess an identity and autonomy as persons or selves?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781138634251
• ISBN-10: 1138634255
• Artikelnr.: 57045534

Autorenporträt

Stefaan E. Cuypers

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction: analytical anthropology
Self-Identity: The problem of personal identity
Parfit's and Perry's impersonal solution
Atomistic self-identity and analytical personalism
Personal Autonomy: Hierarchical autonomy, self-identification and self-evaluation
Frankfurt on the nature of the will
Community and authenticity of the self
Appendix: the memory theory of personal identity
Bibliography
Index of names.