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Youth and Age: Advice Who to Whom?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2025

John Shand*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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*Corresponding author. Email: john.shand@open.ac.uk
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Abstract

We quite often play the game of wondering what our older self would say to our younger self. Usually by way of advice. Mistakes to avoid. This seems true. But here it is suggested that our younger self may have important things to say of a similar sort to our older self, and in a sense can by our remembering when older what we were like when we were younger and what mattered to us. The process of wondering what might be said goes both ways.

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Research Article
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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