Publisher's Synopsis
This volume discusses 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. In sympathy with existentialist thinking, it argues that the reality of both the self and the other, and that of one's body, as one "lives" it, is to be found in what Dilman calls "the personal dimension". The book features a comparison of the critiques of Heidegger and Wittgenstein, and consideration of Sartre's theory of emotions and account of human reality.;Ilham Dilman is also the author of "Morality and the Inner Life: A Study of Plato's 'Gorgias'", "Quine on Ontology: Necessity and Experience", "A Trilogy on Freud: Freud and Human Nature", "Freud and the Mind", "Freud, Insight and Change", "Mind, Brain and Behaviour", "Philosophy and the Philosophic Life: A Study in Plato's 'Phaedo'", and "Love and Human Separateness".
