We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
Agency presupposes choice.
Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.
Knowledge is justified belief.
Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.