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consciousness of victimhood and suffering by the children and they, of course, serve as
part of processing grief as well as creating meaning. In the Community of Inquiry, the

possibility to implement an analysis of the human experience and a manner for accepting
its meaning are clarified. Man’s basic aspiration to create narrative coherency or to oppose

it in his familial setting is expressed here. During the philosophical inquiry, many signs of
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philosophical sensitivity have been revealed regarding the pressures exerted on the
children or the non-acceptance of their deeds.

Through philosophical inquiry, a completely involuntary act of clarification was carried out

of the narrative working upon memory. Covarero has said that every human being, even
without wanting to know it, is aware that he is a narratable self and he is submerged in the

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spontaneity of memory’s individual story . That being the case, the narrative is home for
the subject, for the other and for the distinctiveness that he has thus created for the group.

«The narratable self» finds its home not only in a conscious practice of remembering, but
in a spontaneous narrated structure of memory itself. For this reason, there are those who

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define the self as «narratable and not narrated» .

The children who participated in the Community of Inquiry were accordingly in a narrative-
philosophical situation which presupposes a world view and subjective interpretation.

These are not unequivocal and they fundamentally stem from a flight from pretension to

firm arguments for objectivism. On the level of understanding, a person understands
himself through the narrative. On the level of concern, the young person, the «self», seeks
to realize his identity and his fundamental truth and that of his group as part of his

certainty. Thus, the «self» exists in uncertainty and ponders whether it has internalized

something external in the correct manner which then has become a solid part of its
identity. Therefore, it reverberates as narrative, or it is given to an external manipulation

that internalizes, determines, and establishes a truth – despite its group’s narrated, often
imaginary, events of the past – which contains patently incorrect elements which the «self»

cannot filter and regulate as part of the construction of identity.

212 Lone, J.,M., Teaching pre-college philosophy: The cultivation of philosophical sensitivity, op.cit.

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Covarero, A., Relating Narratives: Storytelling and the Selfhood, London & New York: Routledge,
2000.

214 Ibid., p. 34.

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