Who am I? A philosophical inquiry - Amy Adkins
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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.
There are several ways that the ship that Theseus originally sailed to Athens from Crete and the ship docked in the Athenian harbor 1,000 years later could be qualitatively identical. List some of their qualitatively identical aspects.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Amy Adkins
- Director John R. Dilworth
- Animator Pilar Newton
- Sound Designer William Hohauser
- Narrator Addison Anderson
