{"product_id":"self-knowledge-a-history-9780190226428","title":"Self-Knowledge: A History","description":"The acquisition of self-knowledge is often described as one of the main goals of philosophical inquiry. At the same time, some sort of self-knowledge is often regarded as a necessary condition of our being a human agent or human subject. Thus self-knowledge is taken to constitute both the beginning and the end of humans' search for wisdom, and as such it is intricately bound up with the very idea of philosophy. Not surprisingly therefore, the Delphic injunction 'Know thyself' has fascinated philosophers of different times, backgrounds, and tempers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But how can we make sense of this imperative? What is self-knowledge and how is it achieved? What are the structural features that distinguish self-knowledge from other types of knowledge? What role do external, second- and third-personal, sources of knowledge play in the acquisition of self-knowledge? How can we account for the moral impact ascribed to self-knowledge? Is it just a form of anthropological knowledge that allows agents to act in accordance with their aims? Or, does self-knowledge ultimately ennoble the self of the subjects having it? Finally, is self-knowledge, or its completion, a goal that may be reached at all? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book addresses these questions in fifteen chapters covering approaches of many philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Edmund Husserl or Elisabeth Anscombe. The short reflections inserted between the chapters show that the search for self-knowledge is an important theme in literature, poetry, painting and self-portraiture from Homer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ursula Renz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190226428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUrsula Renz\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She has widely published about early modern philosophy, Neo-Kantianism and the history of philosophy mind. Her book \u003cem\u003eDie Erklärbarkeit der Erfahrung. Realismus und Subjektivität in Spinozas Theorie des menschlichen Geistes \u003c\/em\u003e(2010), was awarded with the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize in 2011, and will be translated in English by Oxford University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford Univ PR","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43652909334643,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_51e393d7-1a9d-43c6-abe2-057e26fa6398.jpg?v=1756295663","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/self-knowledge-a-history-9780190226428","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}