Self Knowledge For Humans
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Self Knowledge For Humans
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Author : Quassim Cassam
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-11-27
Self Knowledge For Humans written by Quassim Cassam and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-27 with Philosophy categories.
Human beings are not model epistemic citizens. Our reasoning can be careless and uncritical, and our beliefs, desires, and other attitudes aren't always as they ought rationally to be. Our beliefs can be eccentric, our desires irrational and our hopes hopelessly unrealistic. Our attitudes are influenced by a wide range of non-epistemic or non-rational factors, including our character, our emotions, and powerful unconscious biases. Yet we are rarely conscious of such influences. Self-ignorance is not something to which human beings are immune. In this book Quassim Cassam develops an account of self-knowledge which tries to do justice to these and other respects in which humans aren't model epistemic citizens. He rejects rationalist and other mainstream philosophical accounts of self-knowledge on the grounds that, in more than one sense, they aren't accounts of self-knowledge for humans. Instead he defends the view that inferences from behavioural and psychological evidence are a basic source of human self-knowledge. On this account, self-knowledge is a genuine cognitive achievement and self-ignorance is almost always on the cards. As well as explaining knowledge of our own states of mind, Cassam also accounts for what he calls 'substantial' self-knowledge, including knowledge of our values, emotions, and character. He criticizes philosophical accounts of self-knowledge for neglecting substantial self-knowledge, and concludes with a discussion of the value of self-knowledge. This book tries to do for philosophy what behavioural economics tries to do for economics. Just as behavioural economics is the economics of homo sapiens, as distinct from the economics of an ideally rational and self homo economics, so Cassam argues that philosophy should focus on the human predicament rather than on the reasoning and self-knowledge of an idealized homo philosophicus.
Human Identity And Fundamental Issues Of Life
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Author : Simon S. Godfrey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-02
Human Identity And Fundamental Issues Of Life written by Simon S. Godfrey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The concept of human identity or who we really are has perplexed thinkers in all ages. Currently psychologists have shunned discussing this topic since it is an area that is incapable of being objectified or accurately defined. Yet the lack of self-knowledge is the problem of all problems. Due to such a lack we, for the most part, lead lives fraught with illusions, superficialities, and economic woes. This book is about how we can know our real selves or our genuine identity. It is the author's considered belief that we are all far greater than what we think we are, and the more we know about ourselves, the better we will be able, not only to make the most of life, but also to solve effectively social, economic, and political problems related to such areas as crime, poverty, competition, capitalism, individualism, freedom, and democracy, as well as war and peace. The viewpoint presented in this book is that, without a thorough understanding of who we are, no meaningful social reform can ever materialize. The author, a psychologist and teacher, breaks new ground in the field of understanding human identity and human problems. The guidance offered should be of capital interest to those who seek in life something deeper than the mere surface, something more than what is promoted by the zeitgeist of recent centuries and materialistic culture. The book is a valuable resource to readers aiming to enhance their capacity to know themselves and find their path in life.
Understanding Human Nature
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Author : Alfred Adler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Understanding Human Nature written by Alfred Adler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Elements Of Self Knowledge
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1802
Elements Of Self Knowledge written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1802 with Emotions categories.
Self And World
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Author : Quassim Cassam
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1997-02-20
Self And World written by Quassim Cassam and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-02-20 with Philosophy categories.
Self and World is an exploration of the nature of self-awareness. Quassim Cassam challenges the widespread and influential view that we cannot be introspectively aware of ourselves as objects in the world. In opposition to the views of many empiricist and idealist philosophers, including Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein, he argues that the self is not systematically elusive from the perspective of self-consciousness, and that consciousness of our thoughts and experiences requires a sense of our thinking, experiencing selves as shaped, located, and solid physical objects in a world of such objects. Awareness of oneself as a physical object involves forms of bodily self-awareness whose importance has seldom been properly acknowledged in philosophical accounts of the self and self-awareness. The conception of self-awareness defended in this book helps to undermine the idealist thesis that the self does not belong to the world, and also the claim that the existence of subjects or persons is only a derivative feature of reality. In the final part of the book, Cassam argues that the existence of persons is a substantial fact about the world, and that it is not possible to give a complete description of reality without claiming that persons exist. This clear, original, and challenging treatment of one of the deepest of intellectual problems will demand the attention of all philosophers and cognitive scientists who are concerned with the self.
Guide To Self Knowledge
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Author : T. H. Pons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1841
Guide To Self Knowledge written by T. H. Pons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1841 with Phrenology categories.
Significance And Means Of Self Knowledge
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Author : Tushar Choksi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-25
Significance And Means Of Self Knowledge written by Tushar Choksi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-25 with Self-Help categories.
"The real glory of being human is understanding oneself or human experience, as non-dual consciousness, immortality, perfect happiness, and truth of all existence." This book is about understanding that knowledge of one's self is a qualitative measure of one's well-being. In other words, self-knowledge determines our true well-being. If I understand the significance of self-knowledge, I find the key of how to be happy and safe at all times and everywhere irrespective of objective conditions surrounding me.This book dives into human personality. Not only does it show the connection of human suffering with its root, self-ignorance, but it also provides the means to acquire self-knowledge. Once I understand the significance of self-knowledge, then I want it. ?Because self-knowledge is the subtle origin and resolution of all secular knowledge, the means of self-knowledge that train the mind are indispensable. ?The self becomes in reaching distance of the self when these tools of self-knowledge are practiced.
Guide To Self Knowledge
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Author : T. H. Pons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1841
Guide To Self Knowledge written by T. H. Pons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1841 with Phrenology categories.
Kant On Self Knowledge And Self Formation
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Author : Katharina T. Kraus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-03
Kant On Self Knowledge And Self Formation written by Katharina T. Kraus and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-03 with Philosophy categories.
Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant's account of personhood.
Self Awareness In Animals And Humans
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Author : Sue Taylor Parker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-11
Self Awareness In Animals And Humans written by Sue Taylor Parker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-11 with Science categories.
Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans, a collection of original articles on self-awareness in monkeys, apes, humans, and other species, focuses on controversies about how to measure self-awareness, which species are capable of self-awareness and which are not, and why. Several chapters focus on the controversial question of whether gorillas, like other great apes and human infants, are capable of mirror self-recognition (MSR) or whether they are anomalously unable to do so. Other chapters focus on whether macaque monkeys are capable of MSR. The focus of the chapters is both comparative and developmental: several contributors explore the value of frameworks from human developmental psychology for comparative studies. This dual focus - comparative and developmental - reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the volume, which brings together biological anthropologists, comparative and developmental psychologists, and cognitive scientists from Japan, France, Spain, Hungary, New Zealand, Scotland and the United States.