Title:
Pratiques du moi. English
The practices of the self Charles Larmore ; translated by Sharon Bowman.
Main Entry:
Larmore, Charles E.
Bowman, Sharon, 1973-
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Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Publication Date:
2010.
Publication Place:
Chicago ; London :
ISBN:
9780226468877 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226468879 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226468549 (e-book)
Subject:
Self (Philosophy)
Self-knowledge, Theory of.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Sartre as guide -- Bad faith and sincerity -- The example of Stendhal -- Reflection and being like another -- Being natural -- The ubiquity of convention -- Being like another -- Authenticity and the democratic age -- Mimetism and equality -- Being oneself amid conventions -- Authenticity and the nature of the self -- Foundations of a theory of cognitive reflection -- Psychological interpretation -- The structure of cognitive self-reflection -- The self in cognitive reflection -- Representing and reasoning -- A critique of autonomy -- Obligations and avowals -- A defense of first-person authority -- The persistence of the cartesian model -- The key to the mystery -- A final problem -- Ways of being oneself -- The domain of authenticity -- The instability of practical reflection -- Authenticity and conversion -- How to be virtuous -- The ends of reflection -- Reflection and its problems -- The self and time -- The importance of unexpected goods -- Socrates' mistake -- The limits of prudence -- Wisdom.
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