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- 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.
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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.
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
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
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).
Apr 4, 2020 · As Ricoeur has put it, narrative is the way of joining up the “time of the soul” with the time of the world. In a sense, the “self” as a meaningful and meaning-making entity appears at the point of intersection of two kinds of reflection on our beingness or existence.
