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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Existence of Self and philosophical development of the idea Chapter One The Self: is there such a thing? Chapter Two The varieties of self and philosophical development of the idea Part II Personal identity over time Chapter Three Same person in eternal recurrence, resurrection, and teletransportation Chapter Four Stoic fusion and modern fission: Survival cannot depend on what happens to someone else Chapter Five Memory: Locke¿s return to Epicureans and Stoics Part III Platonism: impersonal selves, bundles, and differentiation Chapter Six Is the true self individual in the Platonist tradition from Plato to Averroës? Chapter Seven Bundles and differentiation of individuals Part IV Identity and persona in ethics Chapter Eight Individual persona vs. universalizability Chapter Nine Plutarch: narrative and a whole life Chapter Ten Self as practical reason: Epictetus¿ inviolable self and Aristotle¿s deliberate choice Part V Self-awareness Chapter Eleven Impossibility of self-knowledge Chapter Twelve Infallibility of self-knowledge: Cogito and Flying Man Chapter Thirteen Knowing self through others versus direct and invariable self-knowledge Chapter Fourteen Unity of self-awareness Part VI Ownerless streams of consciousness rejected Chapter Fifteen Why I am not a stream of consciousness Chapter Sixteen The debate between ancient Buddhism and the Nyaya school Part VII Mortality and loss of self Chapter Seventeen How might we survive death? Chapter Eighteen Could we survive through time going in a circle? Chapter Nineteen If we do not survive death, is it irrational to feel dismay? Table of thinkers Select bibliography of secondary literature Index
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Self (Philosophy).