Verfasst von:	Ó Murchadha, Felix [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	The formation of the modern self
Titelzusatz:	reason, happiness and the passions from Montaigne to Kant
Verf.angabe:	Felix Ó Murchadha
Verlagsort:	London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney
Verlag:	Bloomsbury Academic
Jahr:	2023
Umfang:	x, 252 Seiten
ISBN:	978-1-350-24546-4
Abstract:	Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix Ó Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Hume and Kant. The question of the self as we would discuss it today only came to the forefront of philosophical concern with Modernity, beginning with an appeal to the inherited models of the self found in Stoicism, Scepticism, Augustinianism and Pelagianism, before continuing to develop as a subject of philosophical debate. Exploring this trajectory, The Formation of the Modern Self pursues a number of themes central to the Early Modern development of selfhood, including, amongst others, grace and passion. It examines on the one hand the deep-rooted dependence on the divine and the longing for happiness and salvation and, on the other hand, the distancing from the Stoic ideal of apatheia, as philosophers from Descartes to Spinoza recognised the passions as essential to human agency. Fundamental to the new question of the self was the relation of faith and reason. Uncovering commonalities and differences amongst Early Modern philosophers, Ó Murchadha traces how the voluntarism of Modernity led to the sceptical approach to the self in Montaigne and Hume and how this sceptical strand, in turn, culminated in Kant s rational faith. More than a history of the self in philosophy, The Formation of the Modern Self inspires a fresh look at self-identity, uncovering not only how our modern idea of selfhood developed but just how embedded the concept of self is in external considerations: from ethics, to reason, to religion
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Schlagwörter:	(s)Religionsphilosophie
	(z)Geschichte
Sprache:	eng
Sach-SW:	Das Selbst, das Ich, Identität und Persönlichkeit
	History of Western philosophy
	PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
	PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology
	Philosophie des Geistes
	Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen
	Philosophy of religion
	RELIGION / Philosophy
	Religionsphilosophie
	The self, ego, identity, personality
K10plus-PPN:	1852844507