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Self and Sensibility: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind

By (author) Udo Thiel, Edited by Dieter HÃ¼ning, Edited by Stefan Klingner, Edited by Giuseppe Motta, Edited by Gideon Stiening

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This volume collects 19 of the authorâ€™s essays on eighteenth-century accounts of self-consciousness, personal identity and related issues, covering over a hundred years of a philosophical debate that has shaped the way in which these topics are discussed today. After a detailed analysis of the seventeenth-century background, the essays analyze and critically evaluate French, British and German contributions, ranging from Claude Buffier early in the century to Kant and aspects of the Post-Kantian debate. The essays deal with a large number of diverse sources, including the views and arguments of well-known philosophers such as Hume and Kant, as well as lesser-known thinkers, such as LeLarge de Lignac and Thomas Cooper, organized around four, partly overlapping main themes: a) the self and its identity as a matter of a special 'feeling' (sentiment intime, SelbstgefÃ¼hl) in thinkers such as Condillac, Rousseau and Feder, b) materialist treatments of these issues in, for example, Priestley and HiÃŸmann, c) Scottish Common Sense accounts, with a special focus on Reid, and d) Kantâ€™s analysis and the philosophical context in which it was developed, with a particularã€€emphasis on the German debate (Wolff and his critics, Lossius, Tetens and others).