Self-Knowledge

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Know thyself, the inscription at the shrine of Delphi reads. But can we truly know ourselves, like the Ancient Greeks believed? In episode 61 of Overthink, Ellie and David explore the concept of self-knowledge from looking inside ourselves to the reflection we put out into the world. Do we gain self knowledge through introspection, or are there better ways of finding out who we are? They discuss everything from imagination to doubting as a way to get a sense of ourselves.

Works Discussed

Catriona MacKenzie, Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
Jimena Canales, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Krista Lawlor, “Knowing What One Wants”
Montaigne, Essays of Montaigne
Plato, Dialogues
René Descartes, Discourse on Method
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement
William James, The Principles of Psychology

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0:00.0	Welcome to Overthink.
0:18.6	The podcast where two philosophers who are professors and long-time friends relate big ideas to everyday life.
0:27.6	I am David Pena-Gusman. And I'm Ellie Anderson. Welcome. David, what do you got for us today?
0:33.4	Ellie.
0:36.7	That sounds intense.
0:38.0	Okay, continue.
0:40.1	No, I was trying to set a scene and a mood, but I failed miserably.
0:44.5	I think that actually was extremely successful.
0:46.6	The only thing is you kind of broke out, broke out of it.
0:48.7	So get us in.
0:49.9	So, Ellie, imagine that you are an ancient Greek citizen.
0:54.8	Brackett for a moment that you would be a second-class citizen as a woman with no rights.
0:58.7	Let's put that to the side.
1:00.4	Imagine I'm a Greek landowning man.
1:03.0	And you've decided to make a trip to the shrine of Delphi.
1:06.8	This is the most important shrine in all of Greece, known by your compatriots as the navel of the world,
1:14.0	the place from which the world was born.
1:16.6	And this shrine is built around a sacred spring.
1:20.4	You've come to ask the priestess of Apollo, known as the Oracle, a question that you have about your own future. And as you go there filled
1:30.7	with excitement, but also low-key worried about what they're going to tell you. He's not the right
1:36.5	man for you. Yeah, you are not in fact a Greek male citizen. And as you're approaching the doorway, you see an inscription written over it, which is
1:47.9	know thyself or in the Greek, notice out on.
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