What makes you… you?
NINE TO NOON – RADIO NEW ZEALAND, 12 APRIL. Interviewed by Kathryn Ryan ahead of my appearance at the Auckland Writers[…]
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The Why Factor
THE WHY FACTOR – BBC WORLD SERVICE. I was on this programme on identity, presented by Mike Williams, first broadcast 1[…]
ReadMust all good things come to an end?
There is a sense in which everything that we have done cannot be undone. If you have loved, then it will always be true that you have loved. No achievement can be taken away once it has been achieved. Good things never really end, we just come to the end of them.
ReadSelf and the Meaning of Life
In recent years many have expressed a concern that Western individualism has created a society of atomised, isolated selves. At the same time, the values of personal choice and autonomy remain sacrosanct. Individualism is thus seen as both the great achievement and bane of Western civilisation.
ReadWhat Is the Self? It Depends
We have different conceptions of the self the world over not because selves differ, but because at different times and places people have more or less concern with different aspects of selfhood. They provide different answers to the question “What is the self?” because that apparently singular question in fact contains any number of different ones.
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