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NonUnitarySelfRealizingCohen 7 - 27 Jan 2009 - Main.TheodorBruening
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Question 1: Application of the Unitary & Non-Unitary Self Distinctions: Within class we probed the fiction of the unitary-self. We recognized the potential danger in treating as pathologies variations in humans’ behavior/inner-states. I am willing to accept that a skilled attorney understands and is attentive to the multiplicity of persons within an individual. I acknowledge the danger of the unitary-self outlook is that the subscriber to this outlook is less likely to take notice of human “aberrations.” What is less clear to me is how being sensitive to the non-unitary self concept further skills the attorney who presumes a unitary-self but recognizes the range of human emotion and tailors his actions accordingly. Is there a practical difference between these two outlooks? Is it that the non-unitary-self concept compels one not to merely recognize the multiplicity of human states but to search for their causes in prior experiences? If yes, then what bearing and what benefit does this have on persuasive advocacy before non-realist justices?
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"Among my other questions about Theo's analysis, I took leave to doubt that the attribute he was considering it urgent to preserve ever existed in the first place. That led us to consider other consequences of relaxing the assumption of the integrated self."

- Indeed they don't exist! That is why they are fictions. Necessary fictions however. There is no more a unitary human being than there is an autonomous one. Yet I consider these illusions as vital for us.

-- TheodorBruening - 27 Jan 2009

 
 
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