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Thursday, February 19, 2026

No story is big enough to capture life

(That's his story, anyway.)

"In his famous 2004 paper Against Narrativity, the philosopher Galen Strawson challenges the popular idea that living well requires a coherent life story.

Human life far exceeds the narratives we construct, Strawson argues, and some of us don't experience ourselves narratively at all."

https://philosophybreak.com/articles/galen-strawson-our-lives-are-not-stories/?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=social

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No story is big enough to capture life

(That's his story, anyway.) "In his famous 2004 paper Against Narrativity, the philosopher Galen Strawson challenges the popular...