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In this paper, I take up the question of self-knowledge as presented by Michel de Montaigne in his Essays. Montaigne is at once an assiduous seeker of self-knowledge and a defender of two fundamental modern principles about the self: human individuality, on the one hand, and human autonomy, on the other. I use this paper to investigate whether the self can in fact be known on the basis of these premises. |
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| Storey, Benjamin. "Self-Knowledge and the Autonomous Individual in the Thought of Montaigne" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209578_index.html> |
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| Storey, B. W. , 2007-08-30 "Self-Knowledge and the Autonomous Individual in the Thought of Montaigne" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209578_index.html |
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Abstract: In this paper, I take up the question of self-knowledge as presented by Michel de Montaigne in his Essays. Montaigne is at once an assiduous seeker of self-knowledge and a defender of two fundamental modern principles about the self: human individuality, on the one hand, and human autonomy, on the other. I use this paper to investigate whether the self can in fact be known on the basis of these premises. |
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| Self-Knowledge and the Autonomous Individual in the Thought of Montaigne Benjamin Storey Furman University In this paper I take up the question of self-knowledge as presented by Michel de Montaigne in his Essays. Montaigne is at once an assiduous seeker of self-knowledge and a defender of two fundamental modern principles about the self: human individuality on the one hand and human autonomy on the other. I use this paper to investigate whether the self can in fact be known |
| story. We may thus retain the sacred status Montaigne accords to individuality but we will have to acknowledge that status as a miraculous gift from something higher than ourselves. If we follow the philosophers we can try to understand ourselves on rational terms acknowledging our uniqueness but not according it inestimable worth; if we follow St. Augustine we are indeed unique and priceless but we do not belong to ourselves and must remain ultimately mysterious to ourselves. We can |
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