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(2014) Self and other, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
The chapter discusses different versions of the view that subjectivity and selfhood must be distinguished. According to one line of criticism found in Buddhism, to interpret the intrinsically self-reflexive stream of consciousness as an enduring self-entity is to engage in an illusory reification. According to another criticism, the self cannot simply be equated with a built-in feature of consciousness but must instead be located and situated within a space of normativity. To put it differently, the requirements that must be met in order to qualify as a self are higher than those needed in order to be conscious. One influential version of this latter proposal, the so-called narrative account of self, is analysed, and the chapter ends with a discussion of whether the narrative account can stand alone or whether it necessarily presupposes the dimension of self that is targeted by the experience-based approach.
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DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590681.003.0004
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Zahavi, D. (2014). Subjectivity or selfhood, in Self and other, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 42-62.
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