In his concise and ambitious book, Gareth B. Matthews explores the implications of doing philosophy in the first person. He focuses on the most notable attempts in the history of philosophy to take this perspective: Augustine's Confessions, perhaps the first significant autobiography in Western culture, and Soliloquies, a dialogue between himself and reason; and Descartes's Meditations and Discourse on Method. "By examining the first-personalization of philosophy in these two historical figures," he writes, "we can learn something important about our own philosophical options, and about those of any other thinker who dares, philosophically, to say 'I.'"
- ISBN10 0801427754
- ISBN13 9780801427756
- Publish Date 1 November 1992
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 January 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 217
- Language English