Self to Self: Selected Essays

by J. David Velleman

• ISBN13: 9780521854290
• ISBN10: 0521854296
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the distinguished philosopher J. David Velleman. Although each of the essays was written as an independent piece, they are unified by an overarching thesis, that there is no single entity denoted by 'the self', as well as by themes from Kantian ethics, psychoanalytic theory, social psychology, and Velleman's work in the philosophy of action. Two of the essays were selected by the editors of Philosophers' Annual as being among the ten best papers in their year of publication. Aimed primarily at professional philosophers and advanced students, Self to Self will also be of interest to psychologists and others who theorize about the self.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Sources	xi
1 Introduction	1	(15)
2 A Brief Introduction to Kantian Ethics	16	(29)
3 The Genesis of Shame	45	(25)
4 Love as a Moral Emotion	70	(40)
5 The Voice of Conscience	110	(19)
6 A Rational Superego	129	(27)
7 Don't Worry, Feel Guilty	156	(14)
8 Self to Self	170	(33)
9 The Self as Narrator	203	(21)
10 From Self Psychology to Moral Philosophy	224	(29)
11 The Centered Self	253	(31)
12 Willing the Law	284	(28)
13 Motivation by Ideal	312	(18)
14 Identification and Identity	330	(31)
Bibliography	361	(18)
Index	379