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What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life

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What Makes a Person: The Seven Layers of Selfhood in Literature and Life
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“It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person.”

“A person’s identity,” Amin Maalouf wrote as he contemplated what he so poetically called the genes of the soul, “is like a pattern drawn on a tightly stretched parchment. Touch just one part of it, just one allegiance, and the whole person will react, the whole drum will sound.” And yet we are increasingly pressured to parcel ourselves ou

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