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PHILOSOPHICAL SELF-KNOWLEDGE - DONALD PHILLIP V...

The inscription on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi  Gnothi seauton (Know thyself)  is taken up
by Socrates and pursued as the center of philosophy. Self-knowledge is the theme that endures
throughout the history of philosophy. It is a theme that philosophy shares with literature. We
know ourselves to be human  but the question remains as to what it means to be human. What we
are is a metaphysical and ethical problem. Satire shows us how others see us. Memory  the
mother of the Muses  gives us access to see ourselves as we have been  are now  and may be in
the future. This work considers the idea of satire through the writings of Aristophanes  Lucian
Erasmus  Rabelais  Swift  Voltaire  and Joyce. It examines the nature of memory in terms of the
views of Hesiod  Plato  Aristotle  Camillo  Vico  Hegel  and Joyce. Attention to Joyce in both
instances is to Finnegans Wake. The author invites readers to take up the question of
self-knowledge  to pursue it further in their own terms and sources.

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