Rise and Fall of Soul and Self Martin Raymond
Rise and Fall of Soul and Self Martin Raymond This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. They then discuss the ideas of…
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Rise and Fall of Soul and Self Martin Raymond
This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and Renaissance philosophers, including St. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves.The authors open with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories.
In their coverage of the emergence of a new mechanistic conception of nature in the seventeenth century, Martin and Barresi note a shift away from religious and purely philosophical notions of self and personal Paul, Philo, Augustine, Aquinas, and Montaigne.