Self
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It investigates the phrase, “I couldn’t live with myself if . . .” which I find very striking. I tease out that there is a me and a self implied in this statement – that can live happily or unhappily together. It [...]
I am having a dialogue with Sarah Luczaj over on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is about our experience and how it relates to who we are. We don’t know much about what goes in the world, and we are unaware of much that goes on in ourselves too (there is physical [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called Creating and Receiving Ourselves. I wrote it to talk about the sense I have that there are parts of me that I don’t much choice about – I can choose to receive them or reject them, but that’s about [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called Learning to be Ourselves. I am interested in how we become ‘more ourselves’ as life goes on. We not only learn about our environment, but about ourselves at the same time. Somehow, even though I learn and change, it [...]
This is just a quick note to alert you to a lovely post by Sarah Luczaj on Isabella Mori’s blog. Sarah is writing about the nature of the “I” in lyric poetry – is it the same as the “I” that does the dishes? What about including the experience of others, or writing in a [...]
Image by kevindooley What is the self? A friend of mine went to a talk by a Buddhist monk. His question about self-improvement was: finally, doesn’t it come down to a hostility to the self? That is, self-improvement means judging ourselves as inadequate: that we need to be something other than we are. Doesn’t self-improvement [...]
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