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Author: Simine Vazire
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2012-06-20
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1462505112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of self-knowledge looks at current research on how people perceive their own thoughts, feelings, traits, and behavior, with coverage encompassing the mental, behavioral, biological, and social structures that underlie self-knowledge.
Author: The School of Life
Publisher: School of Life Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780995573673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe difference between success and failure often hangs on a fascinatingly small and elusive concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence. This is a guidebook to what confidence consists of, why we lack it - and how we can acquire more of it in our lives. On Confidence walks us gently and wryly around the key issues that stop us from making more of our potential. We hear about the impostor syndrome, the wisdom of imagining the great in their bathrooms and what Nietzsche and Montaigne (among others) have to tell us about resilience and courage. We often stay stuck with the level of confidence we have because we implicitly regard being confident as a matter of slightly freakish and unrepeatable good luck. In fact, as this essay charmingly shows, the opposite is true. Confidence is a skill based on a set of ideas about our place in the world - and its secrets can quietly and deftly be learnt. What people are saying about On Confidence: “Awesome graphic design and the paper quality is amazing.” Joana “Great content, engagingly written.” Janine “Great life advice without being overly pedantic. Cleverly written, digestible format.” Carolyn
Author: Stephen Hetherington
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2007-03-19
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1770482369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelf-Knowledge introduces philosophical ideas about knowledge and the self. The book takes the form of a personal meditation: it is one person’s attempt to reflect philosophically upon vital aspects of his existence. It shows how profound philosophy can swiftly emerge from intense private reflection upon the details of one’s life and, thus, will help the reader take the first steps toward philosophical self-understanding. Along the way, readers will encounter moments of puzzlement, then clarity, followed by more perplexity and further insights, and then—finally—some philosophical peace of mind.
Author: THE SCHOOL OF LIFE.
Publisher:
Published: 2024-09-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781915087423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book to help us on our journey to knowing ourselves better. When Socrates was asked to define our highest purpose as humans, he said, "To know ourselves." This advice holds true. Without self-knowledge, all other efforts are in vain. The second title in the '40 Images' series, Self-Knowledge in 40 Images takes us on a tour of certain key ideas that we need to befriend our deeper selves, accompanied by the work of photographers and artists such as David Hockney, Cy Twombly, Edgar Degas, Isabella La Rocca González and Elise Corten. Featuring culturally and historically diverse artwork alongside a series of elegant essays inviting contemplation, this book helps us to understand how our childhoods have shaped us, what difficulties we characteristically experience in relationships and what our purpose should be. Modern society gives us no shortage of ambitions. We will have landed on the one that can finally brings us peace and freedom when we are ready - with the help of this book - to begin the inward journey: self knowledge. Pair with the Know Yourself Prompt Cards, designed to help lead you through the important task of knowing yourself a little better in life.
Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-09
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1107123305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first systematic study of Socrates' interest in selfhood, examining ancient philosophical ideas of what constitutes the self.
Author: Jose Luis Bermudez
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998-01-23
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780262522489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Body and the Self brings together recent work by philosophers and psychologists on the nature of self-consciousness, the nature of bodily awareness, and the relation between the two. The central problem addressed is How is our grasp of ourselves as one object among others underpinned by the ways in which we use and represent our bodies? The contributors take up such issues as how should we characterize the various distinctive ways we have of being in touch with our own bodies in sensation, proprioception, and action? How exactly does our grip on our bodies as objects connect with our ability to perceive the external environment, and with our ability to engage in various forms of social interaction? Can any of these ways of representing our bodies affect a bridge between body and self?
Author: Ann Hartle
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780847684182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe philosophical ideal of self-knowledge has been all but forgotten in what Walker Percy calls "the age of theory." Hartle attempts to recover that ancient philosophical task and to articulate what that ideal could mean in the context of our historical situation. She considers and rejects claims that we can attain self-knowledge through theory, anti-theory, or narrative and she defends philosophy as a humanistic, rather than scientific, endeavor. Self-Knowledge in the Age of Theory will be of great interest not only to philosophers but to scholars of literature and other humanities.
Author: Claudia Welz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-08-18
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0191087904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can we, in our times, understand the biblical concept that human beings have been created in the image of an invisible God? This is a perennial but increasingly pressing question that lies at the heart of theological anthropology. Humanity in God's Image: An Interdisciplinary Exploration clarifies the meaning of this concept, traces different Jewish and Christian interpretations of being created in God's image, and reconsiders the significance of the imago Dei in a post-Holocaust context. As normative, counter-factual notions, human dignity and the imago Dei challenge us to see more. Claudia Welz offers an interdisciplinary exploration of theological and ethical 'visions' of the invisible. By analysing poetry and art, Welz exemplifies human self-understanding in the interface between the visual and the linguistic. The content of the imago Dei cannot be defined apart from the image carrier: an embodied creature. Compared to verbal, visual, and mental images, how does this creature as a 'living image' refer to God—like a metaphor, a mimetic mirror, or an elusive trace? Combining hermeneutical and phenomenological perspectives with philosophy of religion and philosophy of language, semiotics, art history, and literary studies, Welz regards the imago Dei as a complex sign that is at once iconic, indexical, and symbolical—pointing beyond itself.
Author: Rolf Soellner
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 0814201717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Franco
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-09-30
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 022680030X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Franco explores the relationship between Nietzsche and Rousseau and their critique of modern life. Franco begins by arguing that 'among philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche are perhaps the two most influential explorers and shapers of the moral and cultural imagination of late modernity.' And yet Nietzsche was often highly critical of Rousseau. Indeed, their critiques of modern life differ in important respects. Rousseau focused on the growing political and economic inequality in modern society and proposed a more egalitarian politics. Nietzsche decried the inability of society to take account of the exceptional individual and found Rousseau's political ideas wrong-headed"--Publisher marketing.
