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- The strongest versions of the narrative approach hold that both a person's sense of self and a person's life are narrative in structure, and this is called the hermeneutical narrative theory.
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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.
This article examines the narrative approach to self found in philosophy and related disciplines. The strongest versions of the narrative approach hold that both a person's sense of self and a person's life are narrative in structure, and this is called the hermeneutical narrative theory.
May 10, 2014 · What does exist, is the narrative self. This self has no material extension in the world, but exists as a fiction, in the same way as fictive characters like Sherlock Holmes exist, or theoretical abstractions such as centers of narrative gravity (Dennett 1992, 103–104).
- Priscilla Brandon
- p.brandon@ftr.ru.nl
- 2016
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
Jun 28, 2012 · Our narrative sense of self is present to us not only when explicitly thinking of our past and future or when explicitly engaged in narrative thinking. It is also intricately involved in the way we engage with and think of our present environment and of ourselves and other people.
In this section, I explain the narrative view and lay out some important features of self-narratives to prepare the ground for discussions about self-narratives and personal well-being. According to the narrative view, self-narratives support the sense of personal identity.
Mar 14, 2014 · The narrative view of personhood suggests that we as persons are constituted by self-narratives. Self-narratives support not only the sense of personal persistence but also agency.
