Beschreibung:
This text examines Plotinus' conceptualisation of two selfhoods - corporeal and rational, their interrelations and implications for living.
Introduction; Part I. The Endowed Structures of Selfhood: 1. Two lives, two identities: the ontological and anthropological setting; 2. The conscious centre; 3. The rational self and its knowledge of itself; Part II. Constructing the Self: Between the World and the Ideal: 4. Sculpting your self: self-control, self-determination and self-constitution; 5. Action and other people: the self as a citizen of two communities; 6. Losing the limits of the self?; Conclusion.