The Person and the Human Mind

Issues in Ancient and Modern Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-19-824460-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 551 g

This collection of essays aims to explore analogous issues in classical and modern philosophy relating to the concepts of person and human being. A key question for the collection is whether there are such analogous issues, and whether we can find in ancient philosophy a notion which is comparable to `person`, as this figures in modern philosophy. This question is approached, on the modern side, by essays which reappraise the validity of the notion of person, and which ask whether this notion can be distinguished from our conception of what is essential to our existence as human beings. The essays on Classical philosophy take up the related questions of what being `human` entails in ancient ethics and psychology, and whether we should regard ourselves as essentially human or rational beings.

This is the first publication to offer extended examination of these questions about the relationship between Classical and modern thinking; and it merits the attention of all those who are interested in the substantial implications of philosophy, ethics, and the history of ideas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gill, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: 'Person' and 'Human Being': the status and interrelationship of the concepts; Amelie Oksenberg Rorty: Persons and Personae; Adam Morton: Why there is no concept of a person; Peter Smith: Human persons; P.F. Snowdon: Persons, animals, and ourselves; Troels Engberg-Pedersen: Stoic philosophy and the concept of the person; Christopher Gill: The human being as an ethical norm; Part Two: The human and the rational mind - models of self-understanding; George Botterill: Human Nature and Fold Psychology; Stephen R. L. Clark: Reason as Daimon; M. R. Wright: Presocratic minds; Christopher Rowe: Philosophy, love, and madness; A. W. Price: Plato and Freud