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Self or No-Self? The Debate about Selflessness and the Sense of Self. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2015

:	Ingolf U. Dalferth, Trevor W. Kimball
:	Self or No-Self? The Debate about Selflessness and the Sense of Self. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2015
:	Mohr Siebeck
:	9783161553554
:	Religion in Philosophy and Theology
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:	CHF 88.00
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:	Christentum
:	English

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Religious, philosophical, and theological views on the self vary widely. For some the self is seen as the center of human personhood, the ultimate bearer of personal identity and the core mystery of human existence. For others the self is a grammatical error and the sense of self an existential and epistemic delusion. Buddhists contrast the Western understanding of the self as a function of the mind that helps us to organize our experiences to their view of no-self by distinguishing between no-self and not-self or between a solid or 'metaphysical' self that is an illusion and an experiential or psychological self that is not. There may be processes of 'selfing', but there is no permanent self. In Western psychology, philosophy, and theology, on the other hand, the term 'self' is often used as a noun that refers not to the performance of an activity or to a material body per se but rather to a (gendered) organism that represents the presence of something distinct from its materiality. Is this a defensible insight or a misleading representation of human experience? We are aware of ourselves in the first-person manner of our ipse -identity that cannot fully be spelled out in objectifying terms, but we also know ourselves in the third-person manner of our idem -identity, the objectified self-reference to a publicly available entity. This volume documents a critical and constructive debate between critics and defenders of the self or of the no-self that explores the intercultural dimensions of this important topic.

	Cover	1
	Preface	6
	Contents	8
	Ingolf U. Dalferth: Introduction: The Debate about Self and Selflessness	12
	I. The Making of the Self through Language	18
	Ingolf U. Dalferth: Situated Selves in “Webs of Interlocution”: What Can We Learn from Grammar?	20
	1. The ‘self ’ as an operator	20
	2. The ‘self ’as a noun	21
	3. The ‘self ’ as a verb and an adverb	23
	3.1 The self as Dasein, Sosein and Wahrsein	23
	3.2 The self as the relating of a relation	25
	3.3 Relations, distinctions and the actual infinite	28
	3.4 The self as activity and mode of relating	29
	3.5 Two basic questions	32
	4. Self-interpreting animals	33
	4.1 Understanding and interpretation	34
	4.2 Changing the world by interpreting it	35
	4.3 Interpretation and self-interpretation	36
	5. Selves and situations	36
	5.1 The relativity and selectivity of situations	36
	5.2 Shared situations	37
	5.3 Re-presenting interpretations	38
	6. Self-interpretations	39
	7. A sense of self	41
	8. A perennial problem	43
	9. The ‘self ’ as an orienting device	45
	Marlene Block: God, Grammar and the Truing of the Self: A Response to Ingolf Dalferth	48
	1. The Utility (or not) of the View from Language	48
	2. Reading Ingolf Dalferth Backwards	52
	3. Beginning in the Midst of Grammar as Partes Orationis	54
	4. Rethinking Language and the Self ‘from the (Indexical) Ground Up’	57
	5. Final Thoughts: Theology, Grammar, and the Truing of the Self	60
	II. The European Legacy	62
	Joseph S. O’Leary: The Self and the One in Plotinus	64
	The Autonomy of Soul	66
	Elusive Selfhood	69
	Does Plotinus Need a Firmer Conception of Self?	72
	Overcoming Plotinus’s Metaphysics	75
	Conclusion	78
	Marcelo Souza: A Question of Continuity: A Response to Joseph S. O’Leary	80
	W. Ezekiel Goggin: Selfhood and Sacrifice in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit	86
	1. An Instructive Disjunction: Self, Not-Self, and the Limits of Reflection	87
	2. Desire and the Sacrificial Structure of Recognition	90
	3. Unanticipated Tasks? Some Final Remarks	94
	Iben Damgaard: Kierkegaard on Self and Selflessness in Critical Dialogue with MacIntyre’s, Taylor’s and Ricoeur’s Narrative Approach to the Self	98
	Introduction	98
	1. The Narrative Dimension of Contemporary Hermeneutic Approaches to Selfhood	99
	2. Kierkegaard’s Either-Or: To Become Oneself by Choosing Oneself	104
	3. Kierkegaard’s Works of Love: To Become Oneself in Selfless Love	117
	Closing Words	123
	Raymond Perrier: The Grammar of ‘Self ’: Immediacy and Mediation in Either / Or: A Response to Iben Damgaard	124
	1. Being a Self	126
	2. Being Oneself	130
	3. Dénouement	136
	III. The Self in Modernity	138
	Kate Kirkpatrick: ‘A Perpetually Deceptive Mirage’: Jean-Paul Sartre and Blaise Pascal on the Sinful (No?)Self	140
	Introduction	140
	1. Sartre’s lacking-self	141
	2. Pascal on the self	145
	3. Self or No-Self?	151
	Eleonora Mingarelli:	151
	Eleonora Mingarelli:	151
	154	151
	I. Breaking Through Continuity	154
	1. The Teleological Mind	157
	2. The Religious Self: Interest In Varieties	159
	3. The Informative Self and The Process of De-Selving	164
	Stephanie Gehring: After the Will: Attention and Selfhood in Simone Weil	170
	Introduction	170
	1. On Saying “I”	171
	1.1 On Humanness: Weil and Bergson	173
	1.2 Attention	174
	2. Decreation	175
	2.1 Decreation’s Dangers	178
	3. Love in Weil’s “Prologue”	179
	Conclusion	181
	Joseph Prabhu: The Self in Modernity – a Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Critique	182
	I. Adventures of Subjectivity from Kant to Nietzsche	183
	II. A Tentative Genealogy	189
	III. A Non-Dualist Alternative	191
	A Concluding Postscript	194
	Friederike Rass: The Divine in Modernity: A Theological Tweak on Joseph Prabhu’s Critique of the Modern Self	198
	IV. Self and No-Self in Asian Traditions	204
	Alexander McKinley: No Self or Ourselves? Wittgenstein and Language Games of Selfhood in a Sinhala Buddhist Form of Life	206
	Life Training and Religious Language	206
	Anaphors and Selfhood in a Sinhala Buddhist Form of Life	212
	Conclusion – We are Buddhists!	218
	Jonardon Ganeri: Core Selves and Dynamic Attentional Centering: Between Buddhaghosa and Brian O’Shaughnessy	222
	Leah Kalmanson: Like You Mean It: Buddhist Teachings on Selflessness, Sincerity, and the Performative Practice of Liberation	230
	Two Examples of the Efficacy of Proper Form	231
	Buddhist and Ruist Disagreements over Proper Form	234
	Philosophical Context	237
	Objections to the Efficacy of Form	238
	Further Speculation	241
	Fidel Arnecillo Jr.: Worrisome: Implications of a Buddhist View of Selflessness and Moral Action: A Response to Leah Kalmanson	244
	Gereon Kopf: Sel