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i Self- Knowledge oxford philosophical concepts ii OXFORD PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS Christia Mercer, Columbia University Series Editor Published in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series Efficient Causation Moral Motivation Edited by Tad Schmaltz Edited by Iakovos Vasiliou Sympathy Eternity Edited by Eric Schliesser Edited by Yitzhak Melamed The Faculties Self- Knowledge Edited by Dominik Perler Edited by Ursula Renz Memory Edited by Dmitri Nikulin Forthcoming in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts Series Health Space Edited by Peter Adamson Edited by Andrew Janiak Evil Persons Edited by Andrew Chignell Edited by Antonia LoLordo Dignity Embodiment Edited by Remy Debes Edited by Justin E. H. Smith Animals Pleasure Edited by G. Fay Edwards and Edited by Lisa Shapiro Peter Adamson iii oxford philosophical concepts Self- Knowledge A History j Edited by Ursula Renz 1 iv 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Renz, Ursula, editor. Title: Self-knowledge : a history / edited by Ursula Renz. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016. | Series: Oxford philosophical concepts Identifiers: LCCN 2016012172 (print) | LCCN 2016034011 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190226428 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780190226411 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780190226435 (updf) | ISBN 9780190630553 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Self (Philosophy)—History. | Self-knowledge, Theory of—History. Classification: LCC BD438.5 .S44155 2016 (print) | LCC BD438.5 (ebook) | DDC 126—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016012172 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by WebCom, Inc., Canada Printed by Bridgeport National Bindery, Inc., United States of America v Contents Series Editor’s Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Contributors xiii Introduction 1 Reflection I Does Homer’s Odysseus Know Himself? Tobias Myers 19 1 Self- Knowledge in Plato Rachana Kamtekar 25 2 Aristotle’s Requisite of Self- Knowledge Christopher Shields 44 3 Self- Knowledge in Later Stoicism Marcel van Ackeren 61 4 Self- Knowledge in Plotinus: Becoming Who You Are Pauliina Remes 78 5 Augustine on Self- Knowledge and Human Subjectivity Johannes Brachtendorf 96 vi vi Contents 6 Self- Knowledge in Scholasticism Dominik Perler 114 7 Self- Knowledge, Abnegation, and Fulfillment in Medieval Mysticism Christina Van Dyke 131 8 Socratic Self- Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy Ursula Renz 146 9 Self- Knowledge and Self- Deception in Modern Moral Philosophy Aaron Garrett 164 10 Kant’s Ideal of Self- Knowledge Dina Emundts 183 Reflection II Shelley and the Limit of Self- Knowledge Laura Quinney 199 11 Self- Knowledge in Kierkegaard John Lippitt 205 12 Self- Knowledge as Freedom in Schopenhauer and Freud Bernard Reginster 223 13 Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Project of Transcendental Self- Knowledge Dermot Moran 240 Reflection III Romare Bearden and a Collage of Self- Knowledge Yasmine Espert 259 14 Self- Knowledge in Hermeneutic Philosophy Charles Guignon 264 15 The First Person and Self- Knowledge in Analytic Philosophy Sebastian Rödl 280 vii Contents vii Reflection IV Self- Portraiture Christopher S. Wood 295 Bibliography 301 Index 319 viii ix Series Editor’s Foreword Oxford Philosophical Concepts (OPC) offers an innovative approach to philosophy’s past and its relation to other disciplines. As a series, it is unique in exploring the transformations of central philosophical concepts from their ancient sources to their modern use. OPC has several goals: to make it easier for historians to contextual- ize key concepts in the history of philosophy, to render that history accessible to a wide audience, and to enliven contemporary discussions by displaying the rich and varied sources of philosophical concepts still in use today. The means to these goals are simple enough: eminent scholars come together to rethink a central concept in philosophy’s past. The point of this rethinking is not to offer a broad overview, but to identify problems the concept was originally supposed to solve, and to investigate how approaches to them shifted over time, sometimes radically. Recent scholarship has made evident the benefits of reexamining the standard narratives about western philosophy. OPC’s editors look beyond the canon and explore their concepts over a wide philosophical landscape. Each volume traces a notion from its inception as a solution to specific problems through its historical transformations to its mod- ern use, all the while acknowledging its historical context. Each OPC volume is a history of its concept in that it tells a story about chang- ing solutions to its well- defined problem. Many editors have found it
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