The Ideas That Shaped Beliefs About Identity

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How would you answer the question "Who are you?" if you could only share three things?

What is your identity grounded in and how did you come to think of yourself that way?

In this short video clip from a live presentation, Scott gives a brief overview of the historical basis for determining identity.

Scott discusses
-What a person's sense of identity used to be grounded in historically
-The shift in culture's thinking toward new categories that we now derive our identity from
-The train of pivotal ideas from influential figures in history - such as Darwin, Nietzsche, Mill, and Foucault - that propelled the shift into this new direction