Denis McManus

Professor of Philosophy, University of Southampton; author of “The Enchantment of Words: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton and author of “The Enchantment of Words: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”

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In the Shakespearean play “Hamlet,” Polonius said, 'To thine own self be true.' But what is the self, and what does it mean to be true to it?

What does it mean to be yourself

In the Shakespearean play “Hamlet,” Polonius said, 'To thine own self be true.' But what is the self, and what does it mean to be true to it?

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