Janet Coleman's guest appearances

Janet Coleman

Lectures in Intellectual History

Benjamin Franklin

Tom Jones

Ryan Hanley

James Harris

David Hume

David Weinstein

Philip Schofield

Jeremy Bentham

George Berkeley

Nick Phillipson

Jacqueline Rose

Katrina Forrester

Quentin Skinner

Susan James

Joanne Paul

OwlTail

Are people’s characters and the values that shape them thought to be stable in terms of what we may judge to be virtuous or vicious performances across time and place? If this was the case, should we today not be able to emulate those of the past in their best practices? In this lecture, Janet Coleman charts a journey, beginning with Aristotle and ending with Hobbes, that deals with what has been called an anthropological prelinguistic set of conditions of experiences that were held by representative premoderns to be the ways in which the self itself comes to acknowledge of suitable human action and seeks to conform to it.

Janet Coleman - Reflections on the Self Itself: in antiquity, the Middle Ages, and what happened next?