Portable Wisdom

Author: Amélie Rorty

Brief Info: Belgian-born American philosopher

Years 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.

From the book The Identities of Persons

— 1976

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