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    Human identity is formed dialogically, through interactio... — Carmelics
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    Human identity is formed dialogically, through interaction and struggle with significant others, not in isolation.

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    • 1.We do not become full human agents or define our identity in isolation from others.
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    • 2.Identity is always defined in dialogue with, and sometimes in struggle against, what significant others want to see in us.
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    • 1.Locke and later Parfit ground personal identity in psychological continuity—memory chains and overlapping mental states—without reference to intersubjective recognition.
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    • 2.Empirical cases of feral children and solitary confinement survivors demonstrate persistent self-continuity despite radical absence of dialogical interaction.
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    • 3.If personal identity can survive or form under conditions of social deprivation, then dialogical struggle is sufficient but not necessary for identity formation.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental subject grounds moral identity in universal rational autonomy prior to and independent of any social relationship.
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    • 2.If the capacity for self-legislation through reason constitutes personal identity, dialogical recognition is contingent to identity, not constitutive of it.
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    An ontologically holist view of collective identities and cultures underlies Taylor’s argument for a “politics of recognition.” Drawing on Rousseau, Herder, and Hegel, among others, Taylor argues that we do not become full human agents and define our identity in isolation from others; rather, “we define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us” (1994, 33). Because our identities are formed dialogically, we are depend
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