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The Ontological Basis of the Narrative Self

Autoři: Lukic Vladimir

Rok: 2022

Druh publikace: ostatní - konference, koncert

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	The Ontological Basis of the Narrative Self	This paper proposes a question of the referent point of the ontological basis of the self. The role of enactivism is deeply embedded within the notion of the self that Daniel Dennett and Paul Ricoeur endorse. The self, based on the conception of the narrative self, stands between our processes of perceiving the givenness of the world and the ability to narrate that givenness to ourselves. For the self to be an enactive force, we would have to define its existence. For the purpose of this paper, we shall discuss the ontological referent of the narrative self which is, for both Daniel Dennett and Paul Ricoeur, a concept which encompasses both scientific and the phenomenological. The narrative self is a medium which regards both third-person view and the first-person view. The question which we are going to discuss in this paper is the question whether this self exists and on which grounds is it based on. Therefore, a discussion will take shape in the form of theoretical comparison between Daniel Dennett’s and Paul Ricoeur’s version of the self. Daniel Dennett famously argued that the self is nothing more than a fiction, a theoretical abstractum which is used to describe how we create meaning to ourselves by interacting with the world around us. This argument has been used to attack the hermeneutical accounts of the narrative self, even though Dennett is a narrativist himself. The main claim of this paper is that Ricoeur’s view of the hermeneutics of narrative self can not only answer to Dennett’s criticism, but also embrace it. The consequence of mediating Ricoeur’s view with Dennett’s criticism is perceiving the self as an idea. This idea would encompass the ability to derive meaning from the social narrative and to narrate that narrative to ourselves while also including the external categories (those which are a part of Ricoeur’s idem identity).	enactivism; narrative self; ontological referent; phenomenology; heterophenomenology