Is your inner life what makes you, you? Or is your identity about connecting to your community? How can West African philosophy help us think about the self? This week, we’ll be thinking about Akan Philosophy, specifically its conception of personhood.
继续我的系列谜题，让你从当前的危机中转移注意力，这个月我要问:什么是身份?我指的是那种让你成为某个社会群体成员的身份(称之为集体身份、社会身份或群体身份)，尽管这只是一个粗略的描述。
你听过多少次别人劝你放下过去?一旦你看到这些痛苦的、创伤性的经历结束了，你就应该实现了“结束”，可以“继续你的生活”。但是尝试着放下过去的经历并不是你能做到的。
Is there such a thing as a self, something that makes you who you are? Or is the self just a convenient fiction? Would the world be a better place if we all stopped believing in selves? These are some of the questions we're asking in this week's show.
Imagination is one way we can get outside our own skin and get a sense of other people’s lives. But when we take imaginative travels, must we always imagine ourselves being part of these other worlds—or can we simply imagine these worlds without including ourselves in them?