Monday, December 23, 2013

Christopher Hamilton - The Fragility of the Human Personality (IAI)


From The Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI), philosopher Christopher Hamilton (Kings College, London; Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion) riffs on Primo Levi and how we define a self. Hamilton is the author of Middle Age (2009; “It is not often you find burning outrage in a work of philosophy” – Independent), Living Philosophy: Reflections on Life, Meaning and Morality (2001), and Understanding Philosophy for AS Level AQA (2003 - a textbook).

Christopher Hamilton - The Fragility of the Human Personality


Published on Dec 23, 2013


Without possessions, what can be said to remain of 'us'? Christopher Hamilton reflects on Primo Levi and the idea of the self.

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