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very rupture between the philosopher and the conduct of everyday life is strongly felt by nonphilosophers ...philosophers are strange, a race apart. Strange indeed are those Epicureans, who lead a frugal life, practicing a total equality between the men and the women inside their ph

an-Pierre Vernant reminds us how conceptually specific is the an- cient notion of psuch ´ e and how distinct it is from the modern in- timacy of the self. Vernant makes analytically useful distinctions between the

lly, the ego is the ensemble of psychological practices and attitudes that give an interior dimension and a sense of wholeness to the subject. These practices and attitudes constitute him within himself as a unique being, real and original, whose authentic nature resides entirely in the secrecy of his interior life. It resides at the very heart of an intimacy to which no one except him can have access because it is defined as self-consciousness. 46 Vernant compares these

levels to three literary genres: the indi- vidual corresponds to biography, a genre based on the life of a single character, in contrast to epic or historical narrative; the subject cor- responds to autobiography or memoirs, where the individual tells his life story; and the ego corresponds to confessions or a diary “in which the inner life, the unique subject of a private life – in all its psychological complexity and richness, and its relative opacity or incommunicability – provides the

Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 P1: IWV 0521840821c05.xml CB909/Gutting 0 521 84082 1 May 16, 2005 13:16 136 arnold i. davidson Greek experience of the self could not have given rise to a cogito ergo sum, since my psuch ´ e is not my psychological ego. Citing Bernard Groethuysen’s formula, he maintains that the ancient consciousness of self consists in the apprehension of the self in a he, and not yet in an I. There is no Cartesian, or even Augustinian, self-consciousness in the ancient preoccupation with the self. 52 Can we reconcile Foucault’s emphasi

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