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Gray thinks that the pursuit of self creation results from a confused conception of the self and if you adopt the 'feline' view of the self as no-self then you'll always be yourself instead of trying to cement disjointed experiential pieces into a coherent structure like the modern romanticist liberal does.

I feel that he's misrepresenting Buddhism when he describes it as a denial of everyday life and the self, and it is misrepresentation because from what I understand the Buddhists do believe you exist but not as this static, unchanging thing.

He's going off about Spinoza and Aristotle; based on how Gray describes both of them, they both sort of sound similar in their ethical outlook. Gray doesn't show the stoics, the skeptics and epicureans any great love as he condemns them as being inadequate to the task of living in the world. He has a higher view of Montaigne than the others.