1. IntroductionI: Self-Knowledge2. Individualism and Self-Knowledge3. Our Entitlement to Self-Knowledge4. Memory and Self-Knowledge5. A Century of Deflation and a Moment of Self-Knowledgeone which has an essentially teleological character. Such self-constitution takes place in narrative terms, through one's telling - and, more importantly, living - one's own story. Versions of some or all of these ideas have been developed by various influential writers (including Frankfurt, Korsgaard,MacIntyre, Ricoeur, and Taylor) but Rudd develops these ideas in a way that is importantly different from others familiar in the literature.

He takes his main inspiration fromKierkegaard's account of the self, and argues (controversially) that this account belongs in the Platonic rather than the Aristotelian tradition of teleological thinking. Through close engagement with much contemporary philosophical work, Rudd presents a convincing case for an ancient and currently unfashionable view: that the polarities and tensions thatare constitutive of selfhood can only be reconciled through an orientation of the self as a whole to an objective Good23. Concepts, Conceptions, Reflective Understanding: Reply to Peacocke24. Reflection25. Living Wages of SinnBibliographyIndex.