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The project produces a reassessment of the Cartesian and Lockean conceptions of self. I aim to show how in both traditions we can discover and explicate a set of relations between a core self and psychological and bodily aspects that enter into the constitution of a moral agent. I intend to rectify the received view, according to which Descartes advocates a substantial and Locke a psychological account of selfhood, both of which effectively interiorize the self. By offering a historically and systematically accurate interpretation of metaphysical, psychological, and bodily aspects as proper constituents of a self my project aims to change our conception of the birth of the modern subject in the Cartesian and Lockean traditions (
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