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- Perhaps the most basic kind of narrative view, and the one that draws the strongest connection between narrative and self, holds that selves are inherently narrative entities. There are usually two elements of this claim. One is that our sense of self must be narrative, the other that the lives of selves are narrative in structure.
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Mar 11, 2022 · This essay develops a theory of identities, selves, and ‘the self’ that both explains the sense in which selves are narratively constituted and also explains how the self relates to a person's individual autobiographical identity and to their various social identities.
Selves are constituted by narratives. Perhaps the most basic kind of narrative view, and the one that draws the strongest connection between narrative and self, holds that selves are inherently narrative entities. There are usually two elements of this claim.
Jul 31, 2013 · (6) Narrative aspects: although there are many variations of this idea, the basic claim is that selves are inherently narrative entities (Schechtman, 2011), and for some theorists, narratives are constitutive for selves. Our self-interpretations have a narrative structure.
Mar 14, 2014 · No entity who is unable to think of herself as herself* in the first person can produce a first-personal narrative, a self-narrative. So, the narrative self-constitution view cannot be fundamental to one’s identity as a person.
- Lynne Rudder Baker
- lrbaker@philos.umass.edu
- 2016
On my view, then, we constitute ourselves as moral selves through operating with an autobiographical narrative. While this narrative is mostly implicit, we regularly articulate parts of it in our interactions with others in order to make ourselves intelligible to them.
Jun 28, 2012 · The narrative sense of self, as an aspect of self-knowledge, is ‘not some distinctive thing known, but a distinctive way of knowing something which others can know in a different way’; ‘the same content can be accessed from different perspectives’ (p. 255).
Nov 21, 2023 · Selves live in communities or societies of selves. The intrinsic normativity of the self and the actions the self performs constitute the grounds on which people fashion coherent narratives about themselves and seek to display themselves to others in ways that conform to their narratives.
