My Three Selves

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8070596
AutoresPhilip Pettit (0000-0002-0355-3896, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume95
Fascículo3
Páginas363-389
Data de publicação2020-06-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8191 • E-ISSN: 1469-817X
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0031819120000170
OpenAlexW3034760680
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas22

Having a self means being able think of myself under a certain profile that that is me: that is who I am, that is how I am. But if I raise the question as to who or how I am, there are three salient profiles in which I can cast myself, three selves with which we can identify. I can see myself just as an agent identified over time by the linkages between my experiences, my attitudes and my actions. I can see myself as the persona that I invite others to rely on and that, if sincere, I internalize. And I can see myself as the figure I cut in other people's eyes, whether or not I welcome that image. Such ambiguities help explain the complexity in philosophical discussion of the self as well as the conflict in everyday exhortations to be ourselves and know ourselves, yet also to forget ourselves and lose ourselves

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