THE HOMERIC 'SELF' ACCORDING TO SOME PHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATIONS ('Ja' czlowieka homeryckiego w wybranych interpretacjach filozoficznych)

• Authors: Maria Marcinkowska-Rosol

Abstracts

EN

This article presents and compares four different interpretations of the Homeric concept of 'self'. According to the first, the Homeric man has no concept of himself as a psychic unity, but only as a number of physical and psychical organs (Bruno Snell). The second says that he perceives himself as a complex but unified structure of psychical and physical elements (Norman Austin). According to the next view, the Homeric hero possesses the idea of reason which is able to create a unifying harmony among his various psychic powers and which constitutes the real self of a human being (Arbogast Schmitt). The fourth interpretation holds that the Homeric man identifies himself with his 'Leib', which is the seat of all his sensations, feelings and thoughts (Hermann Schmitz).

Keywords

EN

EARLY GREEK THOUGHT; HOMER

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Meander
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 211-233

Dates

published

2007

Contributors

author

Maria Marcinkowska-Rosol

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

702816