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Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self (Hardcover)
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Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self (Hardcover)
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In this book, Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis of
rationality as the core part of Western thinking. Western
rationality includes a critique of tradition and collectivism and a
defence of human rights and individualism, but is impregnated in
all its elements by a conception of the self that was formed by
Locke and utilitarianism. This conception is compatible with
classical physics, but is no help in understanding the facts of
human psychology and history. Steinvorth argues that Descartes
conception of the self offers an alternative. When freed from the
dualism in which Descartes conceived it, it achieves what the
Lockean conception does not. In particular, it allows understanding
the human craving for extraordinariness and the achievements of the
West in science and art as well as its political disasters in the
twentieth century. Moreover, it enables us to understand why
individualism a hallmark of modernity became an ideal that implies
universal rights; how individualism could peak in the ideal of
equal liberty; and why it is now in decline. Most importantly, the
Cartesian concept of the self is shown to offer a way of protecting
modernity against the dangers that it now encounters.
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