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The relational self?
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The view that a self is constituted by its relationships — made by them, not just shaped by them.
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Confucius on the self?
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You become a self by living your roles and relationships well (child, friend, neighbour), not by escaping them.
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Ubuntu?
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The African view 'I am because we are' — a person becomes a full person through other persons, inside a community.
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Ganeri's three constituents of a self?
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Immersion (dropped into a shared world), participation (joining its practices), coordination (matching others).
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How does Ganeri answer 'but isn't there a single me?'
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That 'me' is itself built up out of the immersing and coordinating — take those away and it isn't there.
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How does the relational self link to no-self (1.2.1)?
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Both drop the sealed core: the self is a stream of relating and participation, not a fixed thing underneath.
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The topic's arc in one line?
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Is there a self? → the self needs the other → the self is MADE through others (the relational self).
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What lifts a Section A answer to the top band?
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Exploring and weighing several views on the stimulus and reaching a reasoned conclusion — not describing.
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