Titlebook: Becoming Human; The Development of L John V. Canfield Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007 anthrop

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Self-Portrait, Ink on Paper,ness, that they can make an actor seem false. Like virtually all humans, actors manifest, if only subtly, a sense of self. Indeed, it is easy to believe that awareness of self makes the crucial difference between us and lesser beasts, and that our species’ attainment of self-consciousness constitute

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The Further Adventures of Nobody,sh what the self is, and we do that by looking at how we employ the word “I.” From observation, we learn that the thing we assume we speak of when we say or think “I” is a strange conglomerate. It is in part a person—a living biological entity of a certain genus and species—and in part a grammatical

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Back to Eden,? The question can be considered from three points of view, biological, anthropological, and religious. The verdict of the first standpoint is clear. In general terms, the evolutionary account of our passage from hominid to human must hold. It is no secret: we have evolved from earlier primate forms

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Humanitarian Intervention after Kosovo self; self is by its nature self-reflective. In this chapter and the next, I look at the “self” part of that duo. My aim is to establish the illusory nature of the I. If development of self is one of the crucial passages out from Eden, it is a step into delusion.

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Humanitarian Engineering Education, our language is a cultural extension of preexisting interaction patterns. Furthermore, it is plausible to think that in part at least the child’s first steps into language recapitulate those of the species. We can get an idea of what our species accomplished by observing children coming to a mastery of speech.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554979ave minds. The portrait of the human as an animal with a conscious mind—a being in possession of a rich set of mental objects like sights, sounds, pains, and pleasures—is a compelling one. We cannot understand our place in nature without reaching a decision on the accuracy of that portrayal. As attractive as it is, it misses the mark.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23624-7. But of course that is not the whole story. For one thing, we must recognize the fact of cultural evolution— the growth and spread of various human customs, paramount among them the series of mini-customs or language-games that constitute speech.