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  1. (3) It takes the idea of the soul to define normative demands both for acquiring self-knowledge and for realizing oneself as a unified person. The starting point from which I develop this interpretation is the puzzle of self-reference, to which I now turn. 0.2. The Puzzle of Self-Reference: Parity or Disparity?

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  2. May 1, 2006 · PDF | Who is the person, or self, associated with personality disorder and its treatment? How are we to account for a self conceptualized in terms of... | Find, read and cite all the research...

  3. Jul 26, 2004 · In this article, we will focus on Immanuel Kant’s (1724–1804) work on the mind and consciousness of self and related issues. Some commentators believe that Kant’s views on the mind are dependent on his idealism (he called it transcendental idealism). For the most part, that is not so.

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  4. Dictionary runs, ‘Self: a person’s essential being that distinguishes the person from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action; a person’s particular nature.’

  5. Aug 20, 2002 · Personal identity deals with philosophical questions that arise about ourselves by virtue of our being people (or as lawyers and philosophers like to say, persons). This contrasts with questions about ourselves that arise by virtue of our being living things, conscious beings, moral agents, or material objects.

  6. Feb 7, 2003 · In philosophy, “self-knowledge” standardly refers to knowledge of one’s own mental states—that is, of what one is feeling or thinking, or what one believes or desires.

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  8. Philosophy focuses predominantly on the self as a placeholder of subjectivity: Why and how is it possible for something as subjective as the self to exist in an otherwise purely objective world?

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