The Realizations of the Self

✍ Scribed by Andrea Altobrando, Takuya Niikawa, Richard Stone

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent discussions of self-realization have devolved into unscientific theories of self-help. However, this vague and often misused concept is connected to many important individual and social problems. As long as its meaning remains unclear, it can be abused for social, political, and commercial malpractices. To combat this issue, this book shares perspectives from scholars of various philosophical traditions. Each chapter takes new steps in asking what the meaning of self-realization is–both in terms of what it means to understand who or what one is, and also in terms of how one can, or should, fulfilll oneself. The conceptual elucidations achieved from both theoretical and practical perspectives allow for a more mature awareness of how to deal with discourses on self-realization and, in any case, can help to demystify the subject.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction (Andrea Altobrando, Takuya Niikawa, Richard Stone)....Pages 1-12
Front Matter ....Pages 13-13
Is There a True Self? (Akiko Frischhut)....Pages 15-30
Non-contextual Self: Husserl and Nishida on the Primal Mode of the Self (Shigeru Taguchi)....Pages 31-46
Habits and the Diachronic Structure of the Self (Michael G. Butler, Shaun Gallagher)....Pages 47-63
Is Our Self Temporal? From the Temporal Features of the Brain’s Neural Activity to Self-Continuity and Personal Identity (Georg Northoff)....Pages 65-89
Self-Realization of the Economic Agent (Gilles Campagnolo)....Pages 91-109
Front Matter ....Pages 111-111
The Unstoried Life (Galen Strawson)....Pages 113-133
Muddling Through: An Episodic Conversation on Self, Narrativity, Transience, and Other Pleasantries (Galen Strawson, Andrea Altobrando)....Pages 135-163
Front Matter ....Pages 165-165
Stoic Happiness as Self-Activity (Tomohiko Kondo)....Pages 167-183
Realizing Oneself by Realizing What One Really Wants to Do (Yudai Suzuki)....Pages 185-197
Three Liberal Conceptions of Self-Realization: Creativity, Authenticity and Flourishing (Lidia de Tienda Palop)....Pages 199-215
Rights and Persons (Pierfrancesco Biasetti)....Pages 217-232
Achieving a Self-Satisfied Intimate Life Through Computer Technologies? (Nicola Liberati)....Pages 233-247
Nishida Kitarō, Takahashi Satomi and the Schelerian Philosophy of Love (Ching-Yuen Cheung)....Pages 249-266
Self-Realization as Self-Abandonment (Richard Stone)....Pages 267-283
Back Matter ....Pages 285-292

✦ Subjects

Philosophy; Philosophy of Man; Self and Identity; Social Anthropology