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#741 Marya Schechtman: The Philosophy of the Self and Personal Identity

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The Social Construction of Identity

I think there's an important social component unless you're getting that give and take with other people um you can't develop it so I mean part of I don't know the stuff I was saying before about incoherence or not needing complete coherence what I had in mind. Being a self involves tolerating that being a mature self and to say but there's this whole system in place to try to enforce coherence in certain domains right? There are some forms of self-deception that are really common, he says.

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