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        Self-Consciousness and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Charmides and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

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        2018
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        Brodowicz, A.
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        The thesis advanced here is that the argument of Plato’s Charmides in its search for the adequate understanding of the nature of ‘self-knowledge’ (which is left unsolved in the dialogue itself), can be construed as a search for the proper understanding of what contemporary philosophy discusses under the name of ‘self-consciousness’ and that therefore the dialogue welcomes a solution which construes ‘self-knowledge’ as a special sort of knowledge directed at the formal principles that make ordinary ‘objective’ knowledge possible - a solution which invites a comparison with certain Kantian strands in modern philosophy of min
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