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The Formation of the Modern Self - Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant (Hardcover)
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The Formation of the Modern Self - Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant (Hardcover)
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Charting a genealogy of the modern idea of the self, Felix O
Murchadha explores the accounts of self-identity expounded by key
Early Modern philosophers, Montaigne, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza,
Hume and Kant. The question of the self as we would discuss it
today only came to the forefront of philosophical concern with
Modernity, beginning with an appeal to the inherited models of the
self found in Stoicism, Scepticism, Augustinianism and Pelagianism,
before continuing to develop as a subject of philosophical debate.
Exploring this trajectory, The Formation of the Modern Self pursues
a number of themes central to the Early Modern development of
selfhood, including, amongst others, grace and passion. It examines
on the one hand the deep-rooted dependence on the divine and the
longing for happiness and salvation and, on the other hand, the
distancing from the Stoic ideal of apatheia, as philosophers from
Descartes to Spinoza recognised the passions as essential to human
agency. Fundamental to the new question of the self was the
relation of faith and reason. Uncovering commonalities and
differences amongst Early Modern philosophers, O Murchadha traces
how the voluntarism of Modernity led to the sceptical approach to
the self in Montaigne and Hume and how this sceptical strand, in
turn, culminated in Kant's rational faith. More than a history of
the self in philosophy, The Formation of the Modern Self inspires a
fresh look at self-identity, uncovering not only how our modern
idea of selfhood developed but just how embedded the concept of
self is in external considerations: from ethics, to reason, to
religion.
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