Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly : : The Modern Religion of Conscience / / David S. Pacini.
Through Narcissus' Glass Darkly presents a genealogy and critique of the ideal of conscience in modern philosophical theology, particularly in the writings of Hobbes, Rousseau, and Kant. It shows why the apparently emancipatory rejection of heteronomy compromised the ideal of self-legislated fr...
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