Self-knowledge is often taken to constitute both the beginning and the end of humans' search for wisdom. Not surprisingly, the Delphic injunction 'Know thyself' has fascinated philosophers of different times, backgrounds, and tempers.

• Reflection I: Does Homer's Odysseus know himself?


• Tobias Myers


• 1. Self-Knowledge in Plato


• Rachana Kamtekar


• 2. Aristotle¿s Requisite of Self-Knowledge


• Christopher Shields


• 3. Self-Knowledge in Later Stoicism


• Marcel van Ackeren


• 4. Self-Knowledge in Plotinus: Becoming Who You Are


• Pauliina Remes


• 5. Augustine on Self-Knowledge and Human Subjectivity


• Johannes Brachtendorf


• 6. Self-Knowledge in Scholasticism


• Dominik Perler


• 7. Self-Knowledge, Abnegation, and Fulfillment in Medieval Mysticism


• Christina van Dyke


• 8. Socratic Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy


• Ursula Renz


• 9. Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception in Modern Moral Philosophy


• Aaron Garrett


• 10. Kant¿s Ideal of Self-Knowledge


• Dina Emundts


• Reflection II: Shelley and the Limit of Self-Knowlege


• Laura Quinney


• 11. Self-Knowledge in Kierkegaard


• John Lippitt


• 12. Self-Knowledge as Freedom in Schopenhauer and Freud


• Bernard Reginster


• 13. Husserl¿s Phenomenology and the Project of Transcendental Self-Knowledge


• Dermot Moran


• Reflection III: Romare Bearden and a Collage of Self-Knowledge


• Yasmine Espert


• 14. Self-Knowledge in Hermeneutic Philosophy


• Charles Guignon


• 15. The First Person and Self-Knowledge in Analytic Philosophy


• Sebastian Rödl


• Reflection IV: Self-Knowledge and Self-Portraiture


• Christopher Wood

Ursula Renz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She has widely published about early modern philosophy, Neo-Kantianism and the history of philosophy mind. Her book Die Erklärbarkeit der Erfahrung. Realismus und Subjektivität in Spinozas Theorie des menschlichen Geistes (2010), was awarded with the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize in 2011, and will be translated in English by Oxford University Press.