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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.
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
May 10, 2014 · What I aim to show in this paper is that the relationship between the body and the narrative self is interactive rather than unidirectional: not only does our body shape our narrative self, but our narrative self also shapes our body.
- Priscilla Brandon
- p.brandon@ftr.ru.nl
- 2016
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.
Feb 16, 2019 · By the time they reach adulthood, does everybody have a narrative identity? Do some people simply never develop a story for their life? What happens when the three perspectives on self—the self as actor, agent, and author—conflict with each other?
This article advances the argument that for selves who narrate, the narrative dimension of the self takes a special role that cuts across the other dimensions. First, the pattern-theory of self is introduced and a conceptual and ethical argument for employing a
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First, the self may be seen as a social actor, who enacts roles and displays traits by performing behaviors in the presence of others. Second, the self is a motivated agent, who acts upon inner desires and formulates goals, values, and plans to guide behavior in the future.