Muddling through

an episodic conversation on self, narrativity, transience, and other pleasantries

Galen Strawson

Texas University at Austin

Andrea Altobrando

Università degli Studi di Padova

pp. 135-163

in: Andrea Altobrando, Takuya Niikawa, Richard Stone (eds), The realizations of the self, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Abstract

In your article "The unstoried life", you criticize the idea that having a "storied life' is necessary for a good life. Some authors would probably admit that having a storied life is perhaps not necessary in order to simply exist as an individual, singular being, but they would probably not accept that what you (in Selves) call a "whole human being' is possible without such (self-)narration.