Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Looping Effects of Human Kinds
"Asshole" is a kind of essence that we're attributing when we think about people's characters in general," he says. "We're talking about socially constructed as if it doesn't mean it's real, right? I think we may have lapsed at various points into that tendency ... But for hacking, the looping effects of human kinds means that those social constructs become part of people's self-conception."
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