Catching Sight of Our Self | Iain McGilchrist, Betty Sue Flowers, Anil Ananthaswamy, and Bence Nanay
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Trick Is to Tell Better Stories
I wholly agree that we need to tell stories about ourselves. But of course, I want to make quite clear that that doesn't necessarily mean that they're just mistaken. There are better and worse stories. Life can only be understood as a whole. Never mind the self by myths and stories and narratives that is no alternative. And finally, I don't know what country birthday comes from, but in most languages other than English, we make a distinction in kinds of knowledge. there is knowledge in the sense of German, Wissen and French Savra,. but there is also knowledge in thesense of German, Kenan and French Connet.
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