language:en;View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/who-am-i-a-philosophical-inquiry-amy-adkins Throughout the history of mankind;the subject of identity has sent poets to the blank page;philosophers to the agora and seekers to the oracles. These murky waters of abstract thinking are tricky to navigate;so it’s probably fitting that to demonstrate the complexity;the Greek historian Plutarch used the story of a ship. Amy Adkins illuminates Plutarch’s Ship of Theseus. Lesson by Amy Adkins;animation by Stretch Films;Inc.;Education;Amy Adkins;Ship of Theseus;Philosophy;Self;Science;Art;Poetry;Literature;Identity;Political science;Persistence of Identity;Past;Present;Future;Time;Body;Mind;Action;Logic;Plutarch;Theseus;Crete;Minotaur;Voyage
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language:en;View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/who-am-i-a-philosophical-inquiry-amy-adkins Throughout the history of mankind;the subject of identity has sent poets to the blank page;philosophers to the agora and seekers to the oracles. These murky waters of abstract thinking are tricky to navigate;so it’s probably fitting that to demonstrate the complexity;the Greek historian Plutarch used the story of a ship. Amy Adkins illuminates Plutarch’s Ship of Theseus. Lesson by Amy Adkins;animation by Stretch Films;Inc.;Education;Amy Adkins;Ship of Theseus;Philosophy;Self;Science;Art;Poetry;Literature;Identity;Political science;Persistence of Identity;Past;Present;Future;Time;Body;Mind;Action;Logic;Plutarch;Theseus;Crete;Minotaur;Voyage