What is the Self? Watch Philosophy Animations Narrated by Stephen Fry on Sartre, Descartes & More

These four videos draw on Socrates’s work on what it means to know oneself (and the limits of one’s knowledge); Erving Goffman’s (The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life) Shakespearean observation that we all play roles on this stage of a world; Rene Descartes‘ famous declaration “I think, therefore I am”; and Jean-Paul Sartre’s concept of human existence preceding human essence.
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