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Difficulties of Biography Writing: A Philosophical Approach

Vefa Taşdelen YTU

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Abstract

In this article can be also entitled “Difficulties of Biography Writing: A Philosophical Approach” what biography and biography writing means will be dealt with from a partly existentialist and hermeneutic view point by taking questions such as; “what is biography?”, “why human beings want to understand the other?”, “what is the nature of biography: is it history or literature?” into consideration. In this respect; knowledge value, art value, ethical value, existential value and educational value of biography will be focused on.

Keywords

Biography Existentialism Value (mathematics) Sociology Philosophy Epistemology Literature Art Computer science

Subject Areas

Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity ·Philosophy ·Social Sciences
Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism ·Philosophy ·Social Sciences
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy ·Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ·Social Sciences

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