Nelson Mandela’s Afro-Cuban dog

Nelson Mandela’s Afro-Cuban dog

Thus it seems the Rhodesian Ridgeback was a fitting companion for Mandela who has dedicated his entire life to achieving equality among the people of South Africa and who credits Cuba’s military assistance in Angola as being the crucial factor in turning the tide against apartheid.

Integral Options Cafe: Observations on The Ego Trick, Part Three

In order to explain why the notion of multiple selves has become more widely accepted, Baggini dredges up the demon of postmodernism (it's apparent, as speculated above, that he is not a fan of this developmental stage in culture and philosophy). Postmodernism rejects ideas of a single grand narrative to explain all of history, or all of science, or even the self. In postmodern theory, no one story is more right than another - every event can be seen from multiple narrative perspectives, which takes us back to Jerome Bruner's narrative construction of reality.



Integral Options Cafe: Observations on The Ego Trick, Part Three: This is part 3 of many installments in my process/review of Julian Baggini's The Ego Trick: In Search of the Self . There is as much person...