A Belief System for the 21st Century

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Authors:

Amélie Rorty

Brief Bio: Belgian-born American philosopher

Lived: 1932-2020

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Quotations

“The sort of organisms that interpret and modify their agency”

Humans are just the sort of organisms that interpret and modify their agency through their conception of themselves. This is a complicated biological fact about us.

1976 from the book The Identities of Persons

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