03544nam 2200601 a 450 991081209130332120200520144314.01-107-19388-51-139-17525-40-511-65106-60-511-59302-30-511-59209-40-511-59495-X(CKB)1000000000784272(EBL)452031(OCoLC)609843121(SSID)ssj0000342401(PQKBManifestationID)11247799(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342401(PQKBWorkID)10285076(PQKB)11351509(UkCbUP)CR9781139175258(MiAaPQ)EBC452031(Au-PeEL)EBL452031(CaPaEBR)ebr10329777(CaONFJC)MIL239303(EXLCZ)99100000000078427220081124d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRethinking the Western understanding of the self /Ulrich SteinvorthCambridge ;New York Cambridge University Press20091 online resource (vii, 222 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016).0-521-75707-X 0-521-76274-X Includes bibliographical references and index.The West and the self -- Basics of philosophical psychology. Heideggerian and Cartesian self -- Free will -- Cartesian, Lockean, and Kantian self -- Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality -- The Cartesian self in history. The cause and content of modernity -- The second-stage rationality in history -- Economic rationality -- The Cartesian self in the twentieth century -- Value spheres. A diagnosis and therapy for modernity -- Value spheres defined and the state -- The serving spheres -- Technology -- Utilitarian or Cartesian approach -- The media and the professions -- Science -- Art and religion -- Sport -- Latin and absolute love -- A self-understanding not only for the West. Is the core idea of modernity realizable at all? -- Harnessing extraordinariness -- Cartesian modernity -- The undivided, universally developed individual -- The end of history?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.Self (Philosophy)EuropeSelf (Philosophy)126.09Steinvorth Ulrich152105MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812091303321Rethinking the Western understanding of the self3918367UNINA