| #2868262 in Books | Owen Flanagan | 1996-01-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x.89 x6.38l,1.09 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | Self Expressions Mind Morals and the Meaning of Life||16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| Very good discussion; repetitive if you've real Flanagan!|By Kevin Currie-Knight|Flanagan is in the avant garde of a slowly growing branch in philosophy; those that use philosophy of mind to foray and forage into ethical theory. To me, the discilpine makes all too much sense. After all we have to have figured out (to some degree) who we are and how our selves are 'ourselves'
Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self. But reflection has its costs. We can ask what the self is, but as David Hume pointed out, the self, once reflected upon, may be nowhere to be found. The favored view is that we are material beings living in the material world. But if so, a host of destabilizing questions surface. If persons are just a sophisticated sort of animal, then what sense is there to the idea that we are free a...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life (Philosophy of Mind) | Owen Flanagan. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
