I Am: A Philosophical Inquiry into First-Person Being
ISBN-13:
9780748619504
ISBN-10:
074861950X
Edition:
1
Author:
Raymond Tallis
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
Consciousness & Thought
,
Philosophy
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ISBN-13:
9780748619504
ISBN-10:
074861950X
Edition:
1
Author:
Raymond Tallis
Publication date:
2004
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
Consciousness & Thought
,
Philosophy
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I Am: A Philosophical Inquiry into First-Person Being (ISBN-13: 9780748619504 and ISBN-10: 074861950X), written by authors
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In The Hand, the first volume of his trilogy, Raymond Tallis looked at how humans have avoided the constraints of biology. I Am focuses on two crucial aspects of the escape from being a mere organism: selfhood and agency. These are seen as originating in what Tallis calls the Existential Intuition - the sense 'That I am this' - within the human body. The nature and origin of the Existential Intuition is described in outline and it is related to the certainty of his own existence that Descartes established through his Cogito argument.The primary reference point for the sense 'That I am this' is the body. Raymond Tallis describes the logical and existential necessity of embodiment and the complex relationships we have to our bodies such as being, using, having, suffering and knowing. He goes on to argue that bodily continuity and psychological connectedness through memory both require the Existential Intuition in order to underpin an enduring self. Moreover, the self-realising intuition 'that I am thi
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