
Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental...

Since Socrates, and through Descartes to the present day, the problems of self-knowledge have been central to philosophy's understanding of itself. Today the idea of ''first-person authority''--the claim of a distinctive relation each person has toward his or her own mental life--has...
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English summary: Philosophy traditionally has seen self-knowledge in terms of a subject making himself the object of his own understanding. Richard Moran proposes to rethink this from the perspective of a persons responsibility in regards to his own attitudes and the authoritative...