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The Person and the Human Mind: Issues in Ancient and Modern Philosophy

By Christopher Gill

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1990
ISBN
0198244606, 9780198244608
LCC
BD450 .P46218 1990
Open Library ID
OL2190280M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6656429 bytes)
Pages
296\296
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

This collection of essays explores analogous issues in classical and modern philosophy that relate to the concepts of person and human being. A primary focus is whether there are such analogous issues, and whether we can find in ancient philosophy a notion that is comparable to "person" as understood in modern philosophy. Essays on modern philosophy reappraise the validity of the notion of person, while essays on classical philosophy take up the related questions of what being "human" entails in ancient ethics and psychology, and whether we should regard ourselves as, essentially, human or rational beings.

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