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The Distinction of Morals: Self, Sense of Self, Self-Image

The Distinction of Morals: Self, Sense of Self, Self-Image

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Following up on an interesting lead from two prior meetings "Constant Self, Constant Change" (Oct. 11 (https://www.meetup.com/The-San-Diego-Philosophers-Roundtable/events/85810092/)) and "The Moral Traveler" (Sept. 6 (https://www.meetup.com/The-San-Diego-Philosophers-Roundtable/events/76983972/)), I want to ask the following:

Why do some of you drive all the way from Oceanside or from Vista to this meeting? Why do some of you drive all the way from Chula Vista or from Temecula to this meeting? If you can answer the question from wherever you are, you need not attend the meeting, but do attend anyway to share your answer. If you cannot answer it to your personal satisfaction, then I invite you to attend the meeting to hear from other attendees about why you do or don't attend these meetings.

Why do you do what you do?

Does answering this question hinge on a distinction of morals that goes beyond the notion of self? Or not? Let's build on the prior discussions and distinguish "self" further from a sense of self and from a self-image, and let's do so along the structure laid out in "Experience, Sense, and Meaning" (Oct. 4 (https://www.meetup.com/The-San-Diego-Philosophers-Roundtable/events/82476822/)).

If we finish early, we can squeeze in a distillation of differences in the branches of knowledge, such as philosophy, epistemology, psychology, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, neurophilosophy.

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