ABSTRACT
This book takes as its guiding theme two philosophical questions: “Who am I?” and “How should I live?” These questions cannot be considered in isolation from each other. Understanding who I am is crucial to understanding how I should live; and understanding how I live is crucial to understanding who I am. In this book I take the view that these questions are uniquely defi ning of human selfhood. I use the adverbial term ‘selfhood’ rather than the noun “self” in order to emphasize the agential and relational character of refl ective self-awareness and to avoid the suggestion of an entity existing apart from the acting and suffering human being. On the view I propose, it is human beings, not psychological entities or brains, who ask themselves who they are and how they should live.1
