Self-concern : an experiential approach to what matters in survival / Raymond Martin.
1998
BD450 .M27717 1998 (Mapit)
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Title
Self-concern : an experiential approach to what matters in survival / Raymond Martin.
Author
Martin, Raymond, 1941-
ISBN
9780521061742 paperback
0521061741 paperback
9780521592666 hardcover
0521592666 hardcover
0521061741 paperback
9780521592666 hardcover
0521592666 hardcover
Publication Details
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Language
English
Description
xii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Call Number
BD450 .M27717 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification
126
Summary
This highly original book is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on the nature of the self and on the question of what matters in survival. Its objective is to provide a rationale and a model for a new kind of approach to our deepest egoistic values. This approach aims to be descriptive, including of our subjective experience rather than metaphysical or normative in its intended results. However, its ultimate objective is not only to reveal what our values are but to facilitate their transformation. On the basis of this new approach Raymond Martin shows that the distinction between self and other is not nearly as fundamental a feature of our so-called egoistic values as has traditionally been thought. He also explains the implications of his approach for recent debates over personal identity and what matters in survival. Self-Concern is the first book of analytic philosophy directly on the phenomenology of identity and survival. It aims to build bridges between analytic and phenomenological traditions and, thus, to open up a new field of investigation.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-166) and index.
Series
Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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