Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ (2017)

‘Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction,’ Bakhtin wrote in Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (1929). But, in fact, studies of such prisoners suggest that their sense of self dissolves if they are punished this way for long enough. But for the most part, scientific psychology is only too willing to adopt individualistic Cartesian assumptions that cut away the webbing that ties the self to others.

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