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Ideas for Proclus, Charles Taylor and Stephen P. Stich

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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 3. Narrative Self

4006	I can only be aware of myself as a person who changes by means of my personal history [Taylor,C]
	Full Idea: As a being who grows and becomes I can only know myself through the history of my maturations and regressions, overcomings and defeats.
	From: Charles Taylor (Sources of the Self [1989], §2.3)
	A reaction: An important insight. My immediate sense of self makes my personal history central, not an extra. But a history must be a history OF something.