On Personality Goldie Peter
On Personality Goldie Peter Warm, sensitive, creative, outgoing, cheeky, creepy. It is also a notion with a long and often bizarre history: in early Greece and medieval Europe, it was thought to…
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On Personality Goldie Peter
Warm, sensitive, creative, outgoing, cheeky, creepy. It is also a notion with a long and often bizarre history: in early Greece and medieval Europe, it was thought to depend on the balance of bile in the body.On Personality is a thoughtful and stimulating look under the skin of this widely-used but little understood phenomenon. Scan any personal ads page and it's clear that to get a life you need a personality first.
Is it really up to this task? Peter Goldie points out that we rely on personality to do a lot of work: describe, judge, understand, explain and predict others as well as ourselves. If personality is about 'character', is it a relic of a bygone Victorian age?
If personality is so reliable, how can a virtue in one person be a vice in another?Drawing on a great range of philosophers, novelists and films, from Aristotle, Hume, Kant and Nietzsche to Joseph