WHO AM I? A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY

WHO AM I? A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY -

AMY ADKINS

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Aug 11, 2015

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Throughout the history of mankind, the subject of identity has sent poets to the blank page, philosophers to the agora and seekers to the oracles. These murky waters of abstract thinking are tricky to navigate, so it’s probably fitting that to demonstrate the complexity, the Greek historian Plutarch used the story of a ship. Amy Adkins illuminates Plutarch’s Ship of Theseus.

 

Lesson by AMY ADKINS, animation by Stretch Films, Inc.

 

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