The self and the other
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
- Is there such a thing as the self?
- Is it possible to know oneself?
- In what way is how we define "the other" part of how we define "the self"?
“The plebe system, then, infinitely reduced, was a grammarian’s war between two pronouns and, infinitely extended, contained the elements of the major war of the twentieth century. The person who could survive the plebe year and still use the word I was the most seasoned and indefatigable breed of survivor. He was a man to be reckoned with, perhaps a dangerous one.”
(The Lords of Discipline, 158)
Key Concepts:
Key Concepts:
- Self/non-self
- Solipsism and inter-subjectivity
- Authenticity
Key Terms:
Key Terms:
- Rationalism
- Empiricism
- Introspection
- Extrospection
- Intuition
- Revelation
- Essentialism
- Existentialism
- Temporality
- Spatiality
- Dualism (Plato)
- Metaphysical
- Inner Self: Seat of Knowledge (Plato)
- Inner Self: Bringer of Life (Plato)
- Substance
- Property
- Corporeal
- Incorporeal
- Moral Self (Rousseau)
- Materialist Self (Hobbes)
- Materialist Self (Hobbes)
- Social Self (Hegel)
- Inductive Inference
- Bundle Theory (Hume)
- Transcendental Ego (Kant)
- Empirical Ego (Kant)
- Phenomenal Reality (Kant)
- Noumenal Reality (Kant)
- Phenomenology (Husserl)
- Pure Ego (Descartes)
- Idealism (Kant)
- Solipsism
- Intersubjectivity
- Atomistic Self
- Relational Self (Hegel)
- Multiphrenia
- Protean self
- Decentered self
- Self-in-relation
- Apperception
Links:
Links:
- The Self is an Illusion (Big Think video)
- Inside Out: A crash course in PhD philosophy of self that kids will get first (article)
- Existentialism (Crash Course video)
Documents:
Documents:
