Browsing by Author "Barwell, Ismay"
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Item Restricted PHIL107: Philosophy: Philosophy of Media and the Arts(Victoria University of Wellington, 2010) Barwell, IsmayItem Restricted PHIL107: Philosophy: Philosophy of Media and the Arts(Victoria University of Wellington, 2007) Barwell, IsmayItem Restricted PHIL107: Philosophy: Philosophy of Media and the Arts(Victoria University of Wellington, 2006) Barwell, IsmayItem Restricted PHIL107: Philosophy: Philosophy of Media and the Arts(Victoria University of Wellington, 2008) Barwell, IsmayItem Restricted PHIL107: Philosophy: Philosophy of Media and the Arts(Victoria University of Wellington, 2009) Barwell, IsmayItem Restricted PHIL107: Philosophy: Philosophy of Media and the Arts(Victoria University of Wellington, 2005) Barwell, IsmayItem Restricted Sex and Stories: How Storytelling Makes Storytellers as Sexual Characters, Conscious Observers and Moral Agents(Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2000) Barwell, IsmayStories are told to make sense of events where the sense to be made involves evaluation as well as explanation. Stories are told to explain how things happened and how they are significant. Stories which makes this type of sense are crucial to a person's understanding of herself and other people as individuals with specific identities. They are central to her understanding of herself and others as creatures who know what they observe, what they do and what is happening to them. They are central to her being an autonomous moral agent. This is because self-consciousness is a storytelling activity and in telling personal stories people make themselves as storytellers. Typically, when people make themselves as storytellers they make themselves as sexual characters. They make themselves as agents complying with resisting or opposing social as well as rhetorical structures of sex and gender