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Embodiment and Self-Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

Jeremy Walker
Jeremy Walker
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McGill University
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Self-knowledge is a permanent and necessary aim for man. By ‘self-knowledge’ I mean the knowledge of oneself as a human being; the understanding of what it is to be a human being; the grasp of human nature as such. There are many sides to this knowledge: the sciences and social sciences, the arts, history, reflexion on day-to-day experience. Philosophy has traditionally been seen as a road that can lead towards self-knowledge. What I propose here is an essay in the philosophy of self-knowledge. It is a study of one aspect of human nature among others, namely human embodiment.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , June 1969 , pp. 44 - 67
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1969

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References

1 See Williams, Bernard and Montefiore, Alan (edd.): British Analytical Philosophy. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966. p. 39.Google Scholar

2 Laing, R. D.: The Divided Self. Penguin Books, 1965. p. 65Google Scholar. My italics. I owe to this book many of the points made in this paper.

3 Freud: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Hogarth Press, 1962. p. 69.Google Scholar