The Thread of Life

New Haven: Cambridge University Press (1984)
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This book is based on the William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1982. It offers a new approach to the philosophical understanding of a person, taking as fundamental the process of living as a person, and emphasising the continuity and development across time of an individual life.

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1985, 1986, 1999

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BD431.W78 1999

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9780521310567   0674887573   0521310563   0300079753   9780300079753   0521263468   0674887581
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