The Primacy of Space in Heidegger and Taylor: Towards a unified account of personal identity
Appraisal 7 (4):17-24 (2009)
| Abstract | My aim is to explore how the notion of personhood is tied to the notion of space--both physical and moral space. In particular, I argue against the Cartesian view of the disengaged/disembodied self and in favour of Charles Taylor's and Martin Heidegger's view of the engaged and embedded self. I contend that space, as the transcendental condition for the possibility of human agency, is the place where questions of identity are possible and answers, if any, are to be found. Thus, personal identity and space are inexorably tied and dependent on one another. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Background dwelling fourfold Martin Heidegger Mitda-sein personal identity self space Charles Taylor | |||||||||
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