First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity

Synopsis

The Message Of These Essays Is Deeply Relevant In Times When It Is Necessary To Proclaim That Black Lives Matter. They Express Hope That We Will Someday Live In A Nation In Which Our Children Are Judged Not By The Color Of Their Skin--or Their Religion Or Sex Or Sexual Orientation--but Rather, As Martin Luther King Jr. Put It, By The Content Of Their Character--jacket. Friends And Future Selves -- Impersonal Friends -- Trusting First And Second Selves -- Back To The Self And Future -- Personal Identity: Non-branching Form Of What Matters -- One Is Not Born But Becomes A Person -- Love: Self-propagation, Self-preservation Or Ekstasis? -- Psychic Contingency In The Re Jennifer Whiting. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.