SORABJI, Richard. SELF. Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Part I: Existence of Self and philosophical development of the idea
1 The Self- is there such a thing?
2 The varieties of self and philosophical development of the idea
Part II: Personal identity over time
3 Same person in eternal recurrence, resurrection, and teletransportation
4 Stoic fusion and modern fission: Survival cannot depend on what happens to someone else
5 Memory: Locke’s return to Epicureans and Stoics
Part III: Platonism: impersonal selves, bundles, and differentiation
6 Is the true self individual in the Platonist tradition from Plato to Averroes?
7 Bundles and differentiation of individuals
Part IV: Identity and persona in ethics
8 Individual persona vs. universalizability
9 Plutarch: narrative and a whole life
10 Self as practical reason: Epictetus’ inviolable self and Aristotle’s deliberate choice
Part V.- Self-awareness
11 Impossibility of self-knowledge
12 Infallibility of self-knowledge: Cogito and Flying Man
13 Knowing self through others versus direct and invariable self-knowledge
14 Unity of self-awareness
Part VI.• Ownerless streams of consciousness rejected
15 Why I am not a stream of consciousness
16 The debate between ancient Buddhism and the Nyaya school
Part VII.- Mortality and loss of self
17 How might we survive death?
18 Could we survive through time going in a circle?
19 If we do not survive death, is it irrational to feel dismay?