Read "To Thine Own Selves Be True" article. Found on Edline page.
Think about the main ideas discussed in the article.
Compare these ideas to some of the main ideas you have discovered in Hegel.
Write a 3-4 paragraph auto-biography using language/terminology found in the article and Hegel. Who are you? Which self do you think is your real self? How many selves do you have? Is unifying all of your selves possible like Hegel thinks?
Required- use 1 quote from Hegel (or from powerpoint) & use at least 2 quotes from the article.
The question "Who am I" is an almost unanswerable question. Their can't be just one answer to this question. Man does not and can not have one consistent attitude or way of being. Certain scenarios call for different action and when scenarios change, man must as well by default.
ReplyDeleteWhen a man is with his friends he is going to act a certain way, naturally. When that same man is with his mother he, again, is going to act differently. When that man has a son how could he possibly treat his infant son the same way he treats his friends or his mother? Human have different ways of encountering situations and people. So when presented with the question "Who are you?" there are multiple layers and situations that one has to take into account in order to answer this question.
"And why settle for one self?" In the article, the writer almost sarcastically states that we shouldn't be content with just one version of ourselves. To try and treat every situation we encounter the exact same way would be a waste. Not only could we not achieve this feat but if we could we would be severely limiting ourselves as people. Imagine having the same type of conversations with every person you communicate with. Imagine playing the same type of role in your family's life as you would in a stranger's. This would devalue us as people and stunt our mental growth.
"Maybe it is the separate, unified self -- the one that traditional psychotherapists are still trying to help us "find" or "realize" -- that is causing these feelings of "emptiness, meaninglessness and unrelatedness."" Attempting to unify ourselves is a misguided and perilous task. We must allow ourselves to coexist within before we can coexist with others. Our separate "personalities" must be free to develop and grow through the trials and tribulations of live. If we prevent this growth we are risking our mental health and are doing ourselves a great disservice. Just as a man can be a father to a child and a son to his mother, we cannot expect ourselves to serve just one role in society. It is time for us to free ourselves from the burden of the "Who are you?" question.
"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."(Hegel) We all know our true identities but we could hide them from others. In the article it talks about how we only have one identity. The author uses the example that much like how you have one nose you only have one identity.
ReplyDeleteTo determine who I am I look to what I associate myself with. I can say who I am from the sports I play, my family, my friends,etc. I think the real self is the one with family and friends.
I think I only have 2 to 3 selves, the three I listed about most likely. But I agree with Hegel that it is possible to unify all of our selves. I believe that the real me is the combination of the me from sports, family, and friends. That is what make me who I am as a person
"A group of counselors and therapists, for example, has begun noting that we all must "create" other selves as we leave our families in search of friendship, success and love -- and then move on to new friendships, new successes and new loves."-Article
Delete"Maybe it is the separate, unified self -- the one that traditional psychotherapists are still trying to help us "find" or "realize" -- that is causing these feelings of "emptiness, meaninglessness and unrelatedness." Maybe our feelings of inadequacy have grown with the inevitable frustrations of the effort to locate and bolster this mythical "true self.""
The question posted is "Who am I?" This is a lot more complex than one may think. Defining yourself is hard to do because there is a big variety of ways on can be defined and classified, due to universal differences. What is most important to remember is that answering the question is not permanent, because one is always changing theirfore who they are is always changing.
ReplyDeleteThere is also the very significant variable that exists, which is that there are several different perceptions of who you are. The perception of one's self and how they see themself, how others see them, and how one thinks others see them. This is why it is so difficult to answer the question "Who am I?"; there may be an infinite amount of definitions from the point of awareness.
Hegel once said "Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.", and this is most likely an implication about himself. That assumption is made because the one that would understand themself the most would be themself, but even then they do not understand who they are. Louis Sass says that "People certainly are capable of experiencing themselfs as having a relative unity." This can relate to what Hegel is saying because the understanding of one's self is all relative, it can simple or complex, or even simple and complex at the same time.
"Our common sense notion is the self as a sort of inner boss, a sort of puppeteer inside the body, who is in charge." was said by Daniel Dennett in the article. This can relate to what Hegel is saying in defining someone because it is not always the full concious person there. Sometimes they can be dictated by a greater force of emotion and reason; influenced by experience and the universe. In order for one to define themself, they must be able to define where they have come from and what creates them. Tracking down a humans habits and typical lifestyle is a step forward to having abetter understanding of who they are, even though they can never fully understand.
Who I am is a hard question one that people over centuries and centuries have been asking themselves and others in a desperate attempt to better know one self. When talking to a person about who they are or when your asking yourself you must keep in mind the differences in oneself when talking about oneself as with different people, in different situations, and different settings they'll all be a different self a somewhat different person entirely they will act, talk, and stand in different ways, tones, and different postures as well. "for Hegel we can only see reality once we've seen past appearances" .So when asking or answering the question who am I remember to look at yourself and examine the way you live.
ReplyDeleteThe self which I believe is the real self depends on the question and even then the answer would be hard to find as I could be asked in away like which self is the one we see the most? which is the most aggressive? which makes the rules? well I believe there could be a different answer for each of these questions depending on the person and how the person feels about you even when asking oneself it is hard to know which is which."People certainly are capable of experiencing themselves as having a relative unity,"- Louis Sass. My real self I believe as simply put is me it is all of my selves making up one big self which can be called oneself. How would you be able to just choose oneself and call it real?
I feel as though everyone has thousands of selves each one brought out by different variables (which have been previously discussed) in order to express oneself as others have come to know you in that one situation."There are people who can live very comfortably and successfully with a multiple vision of who they are,".-Edward Sampson this quote proves that more than just a few people experience their majority of themselves.
"Who am I" is a question which is asked at least once in everyones life. The question can come at any moment and in any situation. One to the main causes for this question is because "we have no single, separate, unified self." many postmodern psychologists draw this conclusion because people will mold themselves to fit a situation. Therefore there is not just one answer to the Who am I question.
ReplyDeleteTherefore, if one where to attempt to stay the same in every situation they experience is an impossible task. Mitchell Stephan, the author of To Thine Own Selves Be True, would say that attempting such a task is not only impossible but would also limit the self. Hegel would agree because the self would not be in a state of becoming. The self would be in a stasis, much like a human who was raised away from human interaction would not have a knowledge of self. A self in stasis will be blind and unable to see who it really is. "The true self is dead"
However, the human self is not stasis. "The people may either by a supreme internal effort dash into fragments this law which still claims authority, or it may more quietly and slowly effect changes on the yet operative law, which is, however, no longer true morality, but which the mind has already passed beyond." While this quote, from Hegel, is talking about revolution it can be applied to the human self. Through the way others view oneself and state of becoming the self will grow. The main ways the self manifests itself changes to fit a situation. According to Hegel this would be possible because s person knows themselves then a situations tells them how people view them which leads to a combination of the best parts of the two.
Who am I? I myself cannot answer this question formally. To attempt to answer this question is only by the ideas that I have committed in the past. For Hegel believed the same, for “we can only see reality once we've seen past appearances". But that may not be the case of whom I am today. The point that I am trying to pursue is that an individual cannot define their self with a brief consent, for humans change consistently because we are an adaptable species.
ReplyDeleteThe more considerable question therefore would be “Who am I, when..?”. I say this is the more considerable question to be asked because when we answer the question “Who am I?”, there are going to be multiple answers because we act differently in every scenario at hand. According to many postmodern psychologists, us humans tend to mold ourselves to fit a situation. So said in the article that “we all must "create" other selves as we leave our families in search of friendship, success and love -- and then move on to new friendships, new successes and new loves.”
So I answer the question, I am who my surroundings are. I am not saying I am a follower, for which I believe and know I am most certainly not. I am saying that I act profoundly the way I believe should be acted in certain situations, atmospheres and people. For those actions can be used to describe who I am but possible not used to define who am I and who I am to become.
The question "Who am I" is a very difficult question to answer for a many of reasons.One common reason is that we act different according to situations and the emotions that arise from them. Also,The answer to this question is nothing in eyes of many.We cannot consider ourselves completely anything, because we as humans dont possess a centrality to our identities. We usually just react to our surroundings.
ReplyDeleteCal State Professor Edward Sampson explains wrote "There are a group of people who can live comfortably and successfully with a multiple vision of who they are." He explains that we typically don't have a common theme when it comes to our identities.What we contain are proper of necessary sides to us that complete us in whole. As a result, a many of us don't understand this concept.
For this reason, Most people do not take the time to think about themselves. From my point of view, I have many other important things to do and think about. This partially answers the question that Stephen asks when he says"but if there is no kernel of oneself, why do we seem to start with the notion of a single, unified self." The most direct response to this question is that we are driven in a direction to individuate ourselves. Its just a common part of our american culture, its established in our early documents to be our own person. Contrary to a company like Japan that views the common individual as a fraction of a whole. Our culture seems to be the source of confusion about the question "Who am I".
The question "Who am I" is a very difficult question to answer, because humans really do not know truly who they are. It is difficult for humans to know and be able to answer this question since they see other people and immediately think they can compare themselves with commonalities, but in reality, every is different. If you asked everyone who they were, you would receive a different answer 10 out of 10 times. It's a universal question that can be asked to everyone, but answered back in a different way. "Humans can only see reality when they have seen past experiences," is how one could attempt to define who they are. Past experiences are different from the person next to you and clearly affect the person you are today.
ReplyDeleteWhen talking about oneself, it is very hard to differentiate. Humans have different emotions and personalities based upon certain situations, so who really are we? Are we who we think we are, who others think we are, or does no one know but God? The writer states how humans should have multiple selves and how this is not necessarily a bad thing. But in doing so, it could show humans how bad they are or a negative side of them, but even so, humans can still discover more about themselves.
Attempting to unify all of our selves can be possible, but our surroundings can limit themselves, or even ourselves. I believe that Hegel would think that we would not be able to accomplish, and that he wouldn't want to try and accomplish it anyhow. Coexisting within oneself is not a bad thing, and if attempted to unified, could cause problems or struggles that one does not need.
"Who am I ?" is more complex than one may think. Defining yourself is hard to do because there is a variety of ways you can be defined and classified as, due to universal differences. What is most important to remember is that answering the question is not permanent, because one is always changing; therefore who they are is always changing.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the very significant variable that exists, which is that there are several different perceptions of who you are. The perception of one's self and how they see themselves , how others see them, and how one thinks others see them. This is why it is so difficult to answer the question "Who am I ?"; there may be an infinite amount of definitions from the point of awareness.
"And why settle for one self?" , the writer sarcastically states that we shouldn't be content with just one version of ourselves. To try and treat every situation we encounter the exact same way would be pointless. Not only could we not accomplish this feat but if we could, we would be severely limiting ourselves as people. Imagine having the same type of conversations with every person you communicate with. Imagine playing the same type of role in your family's life as you would in a stranger's. This would devalue us as people and stunt our mental growth.
"Maybe it is the separate, unified self -- the one that traditional psychotherapists are still trying to help us "find" or "realize" -- that is causing these feelings of "emptiness, meaninglessness and unrelatedness." Attempting to unify ourselves is a misguiding. We must allow ourselves to co-exist within before we can co-exist with others. Our separate "personalities" must be free to develop and grow through the trials and tribulations of life. If we prevent this growth we are risking our mental health and are doing ourselves a great disservice. Just as a man can be a father to a child and a son to his mother, we cannot expect ourselves to serve just one role in society. It is time for us to free ourselves from the burden of the "Who are you?" question.
The question "who am I" is a hard question to answer. It is so hard to answer because there is a different "me" for different situations that I encounter. I may have a better reaction to some situations that make me happy, as well as a reaction to a different situation that makes me angry. Also, someone else may see me differently than I see myself. It differs for every person because no one can truly know what someone else things or can see things through another persons eyes.
ReplyDeleteThe way that I can see myself is by looking at all the things that I associate myself with. I look at the sports I play, the things that I like to do in my free time, and even the people I hang out with. I also look at my background. Things such as the qualities that i receive from my family.Those are the kind of things that make me the way I am. I look at these things in more of a positive way because I have experienced them and can see how all of them have made me the person I am today. However, someone else might look at those things in a different way because they have not experienced what I have as well as the different things that they have experienced in comparison.
"Maybe it is the separate, unified self -- the one that traditional psychotherapists are still trying to help us "find" or "realize" -- that is causing these feelings of "emptiness, meaninglessness and unrelatedness."" Instead of trying to have one personality, we need to try to embrace all of our "selves". We must allow ourselves to coexist within before we can coexist with others. In order to thrive in life, we need to allow our personalities to be free, instead of chained to one, limited personality. If we prevent this growth we are risking our mental health and are doing ourselves a great disservice. Just as a man can be a father to a child and a son to his mother, we cannot expect ourselves to serve just one role in society. We can no longer allow ourselves to believe that we are just one person and one personality. It should no longer be a question of "who am I" but rather a question of "what can I be?"
"Who am I" this question has plagued mankind for centuries as we desperately search for an answer. It is such a hard question because there are different "mes" for different instances I am dealt with. We do not possess one identity; however we possess different identities from the instances we experience and from the identities given to us and their perceptions of us. We also gain identities from past experiences. This is essential as humans we cannot be one single identity, we are a mixture of identities from the experiences and other people we encounter.
ReplyDeleteWith so many selves, one has a question over which self is the true self. The writer of the piece writes,"Why settle for one self?" What he says actually holds true. The point of having multiple selves is that it gives humanity multiple facets of themselves to work with. If one is angered by things but calmed or reassured by other things, that person knows what makes him feel these different selves or emotions.
On further examination of the self and its selves, the topic of unification arises. Unifying the selves makes for the person to embrace their emotions and selves and find the source of the feelings of meaninglessness that we feel. "Maybe it is the separate, unified self -- the one that traditional psychotherapists are still trying to help us "find" or "realize" -- that is causing these feelings of "emptiness, meaninglessness and unrelatedness." With finding this culprit, we can embrace that self, and become multi-faceted people with multiple roles in society. Doing this exercise furthers this who am I question by having it evolve. Once we are set with who we are we can focus on becoming more roles in society and continue to develop our multi personalities and selves.
When you ask the question of "Who am I?" you are more or less asking "Who am I right now?". I feel that we as people put too much stress on our personas that be have for all situations we live with in life. This stress ultimately makes our personas or "multiple selves" crack and become hard to use. Personally I have this problem with my life feeling I make the wrong choices in what I consider should be the self I use in what situation. I think the true self is the one that we like to inhabit as it is the one that doesn't carry the most weight.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I have multiple selves that all question one another all the time if one should take president over the other. At many times it seems like all are at peace with each other an other it seems like a battle to not let the sides dictate.
Hegel may be eluding to our selves being unified in selves when one self is not needed in any situation. When two conscious minds interact they may be improving Hegel believing we bolster our ability to have multiple selves in the end.
The question of "Who am I" is much more difficult to answer than most people like to admit. The way we present ourselves is subject to change based on many variables including the people we are with and our emotions. These things play a part in who we are at that moment and time. We may be a quiet and sad person depending on the situation or we may be energetic and happy during another. The way we are presented to people is changing all the time.
ReplyDeleteFinding the real self is an almost impossible quest. Every way that we present ourselves is real but some believe that there has to be a state in which our true colors are shown. I believe that there is no single true self, there will always be variables that will change the way a person acts and who they are for that moment. In my opinion, my self changes from when I wake up, to when I got to school, to when I come home, and go to sleep. My surroundings and the situation that I am in at that time have an impact on my self for that moment. The way I present myself changes all time. The self is subject to relatedness meaning that it needs outside influence in order to be molded. "Acknowledging our various selves and accepting our "relatedness" is a route to the psychologist's ever-present goal: improved mental health."
Hegel speaks of the "struggle of recognition" which can only be helped by another. There is the need for another in self consciousness which makes one aware by seeing through another's eyes. "Our way of looking at the world is not a given, that we create what we see as "reality" through language." Unifying ourselves may be possible but it would be extremely difficult to do and maintain. It would most likely bring much more difficulty than is needed in order to live a solid life.
The question "who am I ?" is a question we all believe we have an answer to, we believe we have a sense of we truly are. Life changes leads to believe that we don't have a unified self, instead we have multiple parts of our selves. We can't truly come to know who we are because we are always changing.
ReplyDelete"Which self do you think is your real self? "
Your real self is who your are at the moment when you consider yourself truly happy. "there are people who can live very comfortably and successfully with a multiple vision of who they are." Different situations creates different version of the person you are. The person you are at school , may be different from the person you choose to be at home around your family. It may also differ from the person you are around females that you conversant with. The type of person you are when you consider your 1self to be purely happy is your true identity because you can't fake happiness. "we contain multitudes" Walt Whitman You may be a free spirit or one who likes to follow rules or someone who enjoys being conservative. "
How many selves do you have ?
There is no answer to this question because we go through many transitions which causes us change roles. "its not just that we each have different sides to our personality; its that we have no central personality in relation to which all our varied behaviors might be seen as just" sides." we are in other words, not absolutely anything." there are many selves that make up one hole.
Is unifying all your selves possible like Hegel thinks?
Yes I believe it is possible because once you embrace yourself your acknowledging the presence of the multitude of selves that combines to crate a whole. "People certainly are capable of experiencing themselves as having a relative unity." This all cycles back to the question of who am I ?
Of the many questions, the most important being "Who Am I?" is the main focus of this article. According to the article, there is not just on self, there are multiple selves. This being because of a principle known as relativity. This idea of relativity is very important, because it takes into consideration all aspects of ones life. This is needed because a person cannot be defined by one thing, but the things that impact their lives, and how they can be a different self.
ReplyDeleteTo the question "which self is the real self?" I think this is also based off relativity, because the self that is most appropriate at the time is the real self. Maybe this also means that which ever self becomes more common is the true self because it becomes more evident. However you can also take into consideration the aspect of people being "themselves" and finding an area of comfort that they may feel is their "real self."
To the question "how many selves do you have?" There could be multiple answers for this, but the simplest one would be that I have three selves. A self at school, a self at home, and a self in public. These selves may all vary because of the situation that I am put in. I feel like myself at school might be the closet one to my real self, because that is the most common self that I find myself in.
To the question on Hegel, and combining these selves, I think that it is very possible to do so. Like the person in the article who went to Duke, he grew up in a well educated almost sophisticated home, however he lived in North Carolina, and made up a different self to adapt to the people around him. I feel as if everyone deals with this, they have their idea of who they want to be, and in their lives adapt, and create new selves for different situations.
Quotes: From article
"There are people who can live very comfortably and successfully with a multiple vision of who they are,"
"They are not just "discovered" within us. They are "created" in our relationships with other people."
Hegel quote "Education is the art of making man ethical."
DeleteThe question "who am I" is a hard question to answer. It is so hard to answer because there is a different "me" for different situations that I encounter. I may have a better reaction to some situations that make me happy, as well as a reaction to a different situation that makes me angry. Also, someone else may see me differently than I see myself. It differs for every person because no one can truly know what someone else things or can see things through another persons eyes.
ReplyDeleteThe way that I can see myself is by looking at all the things that I associate myself with. I look at the sports I play, the things that I like to do in my free time, and even the people I hang out with. I also look at my background. Things such as the qualities that i receive from my family.Those are the kind of things that make me the way I am. I look at these things in more of a positive way because I have experienced them and can see how all of them have made me the person I am today. However, someone else might look at those things in a different way because they have not experienced what I have as well as the different things that they have experienced in comparison.
"Maybe it is the separate, unified self -- the one that traditional psychotherapists are still trying to help us "find" or "realize" -- that is causing these feelings of "emptiness, meaninglessness and unrelatedness."" Instead of trying to have one personality, we need to try to embrace all of our "selves". We must allow ourselves to coexist within before we can coexist with others. In order to thrive in life, we need to allow our personalities to be free, instead of chained to one, limited personality. If we prevent this growth we are risking our mental health and are doing ourselves a great disservice. Just as a man can be a father to a child and a son to his mother, we cannot expect ourselves to serve just one role in society. We can no longer allow ourselves to believe that we are just one person and one personality. It should no longer be a question of "who am I" but rather a question of "what can I be?"
The question who am I takes on many different forms. It could relate to a person's name or the essence they take on life. It could relate to a person's relation to their parents or who somebody is could be built upon the legacy they make for themselves. Hegel comes to the conclusion to truly know ourselves we must be characterized by out interaction with others.
ReplyDeleteA person has multiple people within him of herself depending on who they associate with. Who am I is not a straight answerable question when presented in certain circumstances. I have an unlimited number of selves that define who I am. These selves change depending on setting, plot, etc.
It is not possible to unify whole selves but a person can unify parts of each of their "selves" in order to find a niche in which to fit in. A person cannot unify his or herself. A person can continually seek to find his or herself but will never come to a definite answer.
When you ask who one is it can be varied in a amount of ways. For example based on location it can make a person act one specific way but totally change as they move. One person is not the same as another so it would mean that each person is specifically different in sorts of ways. Like people can like the same things but that doesn't make them the same because their reasoning will be different.
ReplyDeleteOne's real self is normally hidden until they are alone or near people they can express that to. Which means the one you can't express would be fake and the one that hides normally is the real you. Each person has traits about them that make one hide, but as you learn people can accept things for what they are and learn around them. I would normally say that one person has around 4 different selves.
The quote "A jumble of voices will become audible: some bold, some whiny; some mature, some immature; some naive, some cynical" basically means that we all will hear many voices in our lives from time to time but you should only follow the one you believe to be just. "There are people who can live very comfortably and successfully with a multiple vision of who they are" sums up to mean that people don't need there true selves to be happy in their lives, people can be happy with how things turn out rather than being who they should be.
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Modernity ushered in a new era of philosophy. New ideas arose as new minds attempted to understand the world around us. This era was the era of the "new and now". This era of history is famous for technological progress, revolutions, and economic growth. As the world began to change, so did philosophy.
Modernity focused on 3 issues, all being spearheaded by major philosophers. Consciousness, one of the major themes, was a topic the philosopher Renee Descartes focused on. Descartes was born and lived throughout the 17th century. This was an era of scientific knowledge expansion. He was influenced by scientists such as Copernicus and Galileo. He himself was a scientific genius. But his philosophy is what he's remembered best for. His system of doubting was incredibly revolutionary. His 4 concepts of doubt furthered this endeavor. Descartes admits that he can't be sure of anything in the world around him. All he can know is that "I think therefore I am."
Another major idea of modernity was critique. Immanuel Kant was a major force of this issue. He published 3 major texts during his life. The critiques of pure reason, practical reason, and judgement are still read to this day. Kant sought to synthesize rationalism and empiricism. He focused on ideas that came before the fact (A Priori) and those that came afterwards (A Posteori). Kant would question the providence of God. He undermined religion and morality. He did this in an effort to show that reason deserves sovereignty over both practices.
The final major theme was progress which was led by Hegel. The German philosopher was acquainted with romanticism. He was an idealist and was systematic in his philosophical approach. His idea of the World Spirit connected ancient philosophy to modern philosophy. The spirit knows itself through three steps: subjective, objective, and absolute. Hegel focused heavily on reality and aimed to make his work as real as possible. Hegel also dealt with political issues in an era of political unrest. Hegel worked to map the mind and is almost the father of psychology.
Modernity was a chain that linked two eras of philosophy and holds them together. Modernity was an era of rebellion. An era of asking "why?" and questioning authority. 3 major figures of this era were Kant, Hegel, and Descartes. They, in turn, would influence the next generation of philosophers. These men would push the boundaries and would change the way we viewed the world.
Who am I? The question which is asked at least a million times in life. Wether you are asking your self or being asked The question can come at any moment and in any situation. One to the main causes for this question is because "we have no single, separate, unified self." many postmodern psychologists draw this conclusion because people will mold themselves to fit a situation. Therefore there is not just one answer to the Who am I question.
ReplyDeleteI can see myself is by looking at all the things that I associate myself with. I look at the sports I play, the things that I like to do in my free time, and even the people I hang out with. I also look at my background. Things such as the qualities that i receive from my family.Those are the kind of things that make me the way I am. I look at these things in more of a positive way because I have experienced them and can see how all of them have made me the person I am today. However, someone else might look at those things in a different way because they have not experienced what I have as well as the different things that they have experienced in comparison.
"Our common sense notion is the self as a sort of inner boss, a sort of puppeteer inside the body, who is in charge." was said by Daniel Dennett in the article. This can relate to what Hegel is saying in defining someone because it is not always the full concious person there. Sometimes they can be dictated by a greater force of emotion and reason; influenced by experience and the universe. In order for one to define themself, they must be able to define where they have come from and what creates them. Tracking down a humans habits and typical lifestyle is a step forward to having abetter understanding of who they are, even though they can never fully understand.
Who am I ?Can take on different perspectives. It can relate to that person and explain their identity in full depth.It could relate to how they were brought up and who are around them. The way that we discover ourselves with hegel's conclusions , is that we can find out who we are when we have interactions with other people and put in situations that are manageable,but not easy that we have to go through alone. The question is a lot harder to answer than which a lot of people to think. Nothing can be put together in whole ,but in parts.
ReplyDelete"Mark this well, you proud men of action! You are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought." -Hegel. We never really know our true capability because we do not always try and reach out true and full potential. Not reaching our full potential could cause a lack of ability to truly know ourselves.
ReplyDeleteThe question we now face is "who am I?" This is a very difficult question to answer for some people, but for myself, I have thought about and considered this more than just this once. I am a free soul who makes actions based on impulse and says what is on my mind.
Most people may not be able to truly identify themselves within a group of their peers. However, when we are alone is when we truly find our identity and ponder on the fact of who we are and why that is. We have a moment to meditate and focus and it makes it easier to identify ourselves through recognition of our actions and surroundings.