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What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that stil

Drawing on classical antiquity and Western and Eastern philosophy, Richard Sorabji tackles in Self the question of whether there is such a thing as the individu