The Realizations of the Self 1st Edition Andrea Altobrando

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• ISBN 10: 3319947001
• ISBN 13: 9783319947006
• Author: Andrea Altobrando

Recent discussions of self-realization have devolved into unscientific theories of self-help. However, this vague and often misused concept is connected to many important individual and social problems. As long as its meaning remains unclear, it can be abused for social, political, and commercial malpractices. To combat this issue, this book shares perspectives from scholars of various philosophical traditions. Each chapter takes new steps in asking what the meaning of self-realization is–both in terms of what it means to understand who or what one is, and also in terms of how one can, or should, fulfilll oneself. The conceptual elucidations achieved from both theoretical and practical perspectives allow for a more mature awareness of how to deal with discourses on self-realization and, in any case, can help to demystify the subject.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Understanding the Self
2. Is There a True Self?
3. Non-contextual Self: Husserl and Nishida on the Primal Mode of the Self
4. Habits and the Diachronic Structure of the Self
5. Is Our Self Temporal? From the Temporal Features of the Brain’s Neural Activity to Self-Continuity and Personal Identity
6. Self-Realization of the Economic Agent
Part II. Intermezzo—Speaking of Oneself
7. The Unstoried Life
8. Muddling Through: An Episodic Conversation on Self, Narrativity, Transience, and Other Pleasantries
Part III. Fulfilling the Self
9. Stoic Happiness as Self-Activity
10. Realizing Oneself by Realizing What One Really Wants to Do
11. Three Liberal Conceptions of Self-Realization: Creativity, Authenticity and Flourishing
12. Rights and Persons
13. Achieving a Self-Satisfied Intimate Life Through Computer Technologies?
14. Nishida Kitarō, Takahashi Satomi and the Schelerian Philosophy of Love
15. Self-Realization as Self-Abandonment

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