- Title Pages
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Reflection I Does Homer’s Odysseus Know Himself?
- Chapter one Self-Knowledge in Plato
- Chapter two Aristotle’s Requisite of Self-Knowledge
- Chapter three Self-Knowledge in Later Stoicism
- Chapter Four Self-Knowledge in Plotinus
- Chapter five Augustine on Self-Knowledge and Human Subjectivity
- Chapter six Self-Knowledge in Scholasticism
- Chapter seven Self-Knowledge, Abnegation, and Fulfillment in Medieval Mysticism
- Chapter eight Socratic Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy
- Chapter nine Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception in Modern Moral Philosophy
- Chapter ten Kant’s Ideal of Self-Knowledge
- Reflection II Shelley and the Limit of Self-Knowledge
- Chapter eleven Self-Knowledge in Kierkegaard
- Chapter twelve Self-Knowledge as Freedom in Schopenhauer and Freud
- Chapter thirteen Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Project of Transcendental Self-Knowledge
- Reflection III Romare Bearden and a Collage of Self-Knowledge
- Chapter fourteen Self-Knowledge in Hermeneutic Philosophy
- Chapter fifteen The First Person and Self-Knowledge in Analytic Philosophy
- Reflection IV Self-Portraiture
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Concept Index
- Illustration
Aristotle’s Requisite of Self-Knowledge
Aristotle’s Requisite of Self-Knowledge
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- (p.44) Chapter two Aristotle’s Requisite of Self-Knowledge
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- Self-Knowledge
- Author(s):
Christopher Shields
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Ryle poses a dilemma for prospective self-knowers according to which the knowing self’s own operation precludes its turning its activity upon itself. If Ryle is right, then, unfortunately, we must despair in the face of the Socratic invocation of the Delphic injunction: “Know yourself.” Socrates admonishes (γνῶθι σεαυτόν; v. Chrm. 164d; Prt. 343b; Phdr. 229e; Phlb. 48c; Laws 2.923a; I Alc. 124a, 129a, 132c). Perhaps we would like to follow his admonition: but how? Aristotle proposes a way forward, deriving from a surprising source, namely the forms of mutual knowledge and mutual perception requisite for social living, and so for human flourishing.
Keywords: Aristotle, Ryle’s dilemma, self-knowledge, mutual perception, mutual knowledge
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- Title Pages
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Reflection I Does Homer’s Odysseus Know Himself?
- Chapter one Self-Knowledge in Plato
- Chapter two Aristotle’s Requisite of Self-Knowledge
- Chapter three Self-Knowledge in Later Stoicism
- Chapter Four Self-Knowledge in Plotinus
- Chapter five Augustine on Self-Knowledge and Human Subjectivity
- Chapter six Self-Knowledge in Scholasticism
- Chapter seven Self-Knowledge, Abnegation, and Fulfillment in Medieval Mysticism
- Chapter eight Socratic Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy
- Chapter nine Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception in Modern Moral Philosophy
- Chapter ten Kant’s Ideal of Self-Knowledge
- Reflection II Shelley and the Limit of Self-Knowledge
- Chapter eleven Self-Knowledge in Kierkegaard
- Chapter twelve Self-Knowledge as Freedom in Schopenhauer and Freud
- Chapter thirteen Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Project of Transcendental Self-Knowledge
- Reflection III Romare Bearden and a Collage of Self-Knowledge
- Chapter fourteen Self-Knowledge in Hermeneutic Philosophy
- Chapter fifteen The First Person and Self-Knowledge in Analytic Philosophy
- Reflection IV Self-Portraiture
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Concept Index
- Illustration
