Existentialist Critiques Of Cartesianism (swansea Studies In Philosphy)

A discussion of existentialist critiques of Cartesian epistemology, the scepticism to which it leads, its objectivist conception of the self, Cartesian dualism and solipsism and the deterministic conception of human life. By the author of "Morality and the Inner Life: A Study of Plato's 'Gorgias'". Front Matter....Pages i-xv Man in the World....Pages 1-15 Man’s Way of Being: Existential Dualism....Pages 16-33 The Personal Dimension: Emotions and Value Judgments....Pages 34-53 Sartre and our Identity as Individuals....Pages 54-77 Mind and Body: Rejection of Cartesian Dualism....Pages 78-93 Sartre on the Self and the Other: Rejection of Cartesian Solipsism....Pages 94-111 Human Separateness and the Possibility of Communion: Marcel’s Rejection of Sartrean Solipsism....Pages 112-127 Sartre: Freedom as Something to which Man is Condemned....Pages 128-151 Self, Self-Knowledge and Self-Change: A Non-Objectivist View and its Defence....Pages 152-173 Back Matter....Pages 174-179