i know geuss-inspo isn't as amenable to analytic academic engagement, but i really wish williams wasn't relied on so much by radical realists. fleshing out the CTP is just not that enlightening as a basic approach.
The phrase, "who one actually is" does not mean "who one actually was all the time" but "whom one turned oneself into in the course of creating the taste by which one ended up judging oneself."
"The Sea Always Seems To Put Me At Ease"
You are the topic of every epic we have ever been told
And as I stand on this cliff, the wind whips through me and I am made bold
Once again, Your presence creeps into my consciousness
Grace made tangible in this newly anointed place
Anything from the sound of a word through the color of a leaf to the feel of a piece of skin can serve to dramatize and crystallize a life. For any such thing can play the role in an individual which philosophers have thought could, or at least should, be played only by things which were universal.
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