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NATURALIZATION OF THE SOUL

‘This is an excellent book, with an original and interesting approach to its topic.’

Stephen Gaukroger, University of Sydney .

‘I do not know of any other recent book which is comparable to this one in its focus,

range and approach. Naturalization of the Soul makes an important new contribution

to the literature on the history of theories of personal identity.’ E.J.Lowe, University

of Durham .

Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in

Western thought, from Plato to the present. The authors place particular emphasis

on the eighteenth century, which witnessed an enormous intellectual transformation

in the way theorists perceived self and personal identity and paved the way for

contemporary philosophical and psychological debates.

The present work fills a very important gap in intellectual history by being the

first book to trace the evolution of theories of self and personal identity throughout

the eighteenth century. Martin and Barresi initially examine the history of Western

thought on self and identity from Plato to Locke. The central chapters analyse the

evolution of these concepts from Locke in the seventeenth century to Hazlitt, at the

beginning of the nineteenth, exploring the two critical transitions which marked

this period: the move from a religious conception of soul to a philosophical

conception of self, and then to a scientific conception of mind. This rigorous and

erudite study becomes even more compelling by proving that contemporary theories

of self that have since the 1960s been debated by philosophers, as if for the first

time, were widely discussed in the eighteenth century. These include issues such as

the implications of fission examples for personal identity theory and the thesis that

personal identity is not what matters primarily in survival. Martin and Barresi also

break new ground by recognising the status of William Hazlitt as perhaps the most

significant personal identity theorist of the English Enlightenment, after Locke and

Hume, for his direct relevance to contemporary thinking.

Naturalization of the Soul makes a major contribution to our understanding of one

of the most radical transformations in the history of thought and is essential reading

for all who are interested in issues which lie at the core of the Western philosophical

tradition.

Raymond Martin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland at

College Park. John Barresi is Professor of Psychology at Dalhousie University.

ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

1 NATURALIZATION OF THE SOUL

Self and personal identity in the eighteenth century

Raymond Martin and John Barresi

NATURALIZATION

OF THE SOUL

Self and personal identity in the

eighteenth century

Raymond Martin and

John Barresi

London and New York

First published 2000

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

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