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Ideas for '67: Platonic Questions', 'The Symposium' and 'The Problem of the Soul'

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16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 1. Self as Indeterminate

181	Only the gods stay unchanged; we replace our losses with similar acquisitions [Plato]

180	We call a person the same throughout life, but all their attributes change [Plato]

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

5353	The self is an abstraction which magnifies important aspects of autobiography [Flanagan]

5354	We are not born with a self; we develop a self through living [Flanagan]

16. Persons / E. Rejecting the Self / 4. Denial of the Self

5349	For Buddhists a fixed self is a morally dangerous illusion [Flanagan]