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Is Grieving Good for You? | Michael Cholbi

Brain in a Vat

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The Importance of Embracing Our Practical Identity

I think it's one of the features of we human beings that our practical identities can be entangled with certain other peoples in such way that losses to them or losses does. And I would say in the kind of example that Mark was articulating a few minutes ago, you can, and probably should grieve if in fact your practical identity is entangled with the other soldier. They can also limit their death for their sake and you might be lamenting their deaths to their slate precisely because right they are part of your practical identity or practical self conception. Right. That seems to be the tell the tale as far as we can have relationships with others where their well being and our well being come to be

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