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Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean conception and utilitarianism. When freed from Cartesian dualism, such a conceptualization enables us to distinguish between self and subject. Moreover, it enables us to understand why individualism – one of the hallmarks of modernity in the West – became a universal ideal to be granted to every member of society; how acceptance of this notion could peak in the seventeenth century; and why it is now in decline, though not irreversibly so. Most importantly, the Cartesian concept of the self presents a way of saving modernity from the dangers that it now encounters.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities Philosophy Social & political philosophy

• Plný název: Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self
• Autor: Ulrich Steinvorth
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 230
• EAN: 9780521762748
• ISBN: 052176274X
• ID: 02042251
• Nakladatelství: Cambridge University Press
• Hmotnost: 43 g
• Rozměry: 234 × 160 × 20 mm
• Datum vydání: 22. June 2009

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