Self to Self: Selected Essays

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Cambridge University Press, 26 jan 2006 - 385 pagina's
This book brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the distinguished philosopher J. David Velleman. Although each of the essays was written as an independent piece, they are unified by an encompassing thesis, that there is no single entity denoted by "the self," as well as by themes from Kantian ethics, psychoanalytic theory, social psychology, and Velleman's work in the philosophy of action. Two of the essays were selected by the editors of Philosophers' Annual as being among the ten best papers in their year of publication.

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Introduction
1
A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics
16
The Genesis of Shame
45
Love as a Moral Emotion
70
The Voice of Conscience
110
A Rational Superego
129
Dont Worry Feel Guilty
156
Self to Self
170
From Self Psychology to Moral Philosophy
224
The Centered Self
253
Willing the Law
284
Motivation by Ideal
312
Identification and Identity
330
Bibliography
361
Index
379
Copyright

The Self as Narrator
203

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Over de auteur (2006)

J. David Velleman is professor of philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Practical Reflection and The Possibility of Practical Reasoning, and edits the online journal Philosophers' Imprint. His articles have appeared in The Philosophical Review, Ethics, and Mind among other publications.

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