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The practices of the self

Title: The practices of the self [electronic resource] / Charles Larmore ; translated by Sharon Bowman.
Author: Larmore, Charles E.
Publication: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Bowman, Sharon, 1973-

Description

1 online resource (xvii, 201 p.)

Uniform Title

Pratiques du moi. English (Online)

Alternative Title

Pratiques du moi.

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Translation of: Les pratiques du moi (Paris : Presses universitaires de France, c2004).
Includes index.

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Contents

Sartre as guide -- Bad faith and sincerity -- The example of Stendhal -- Reflection and being like another -- Being natural -- The ubiquity of convention -- Being like another -- Authenticity and the democratic age -- Mimetism and equality -- Being oneself amid conventions -- Authenticity and the nature of the self -- Foundations of a theory of cognitive reflection -- Psychological interpretation -- The structure of cognitive self-reflection -- The self in cognitive reflection -- Representing and reasoning -- A critique of autonomy -- Obligations and avowals -- A defense of first-person authority -- The persistence of the cartesian model -- The key to the mystery -- A final problem -- Ways of being oneself -- The domain of authenticity -- The instability of practical reflection -- Authenticity and conversion -- How to be virtuous -- The ends of reflection -- Reflection and its problems -- The self and time -- The importance of unexpected goods -- Socrates' mistake -- The limits of prudence -- Wisdom.

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