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  1. May 16, 2022 · In this lecture notes, I will briefly explain the nature and dynamics of the “Self” according to Immanuel Kant. But it must be noted at the outset that Kant’s concept of the self is very difficult to systematize because in the first place, Kant himself did not fully develop this concept.

  2. 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.

  3. Dec 12, 2019 · Philosophy and Personality: The “Self” and Identity. Playing at the intersection between science and art, philosophy and personality are intimately connected with a search for meaning and truth in both the unique and collective aspects of an identity.

    • Lily Yuan
  4. Mar 27, 2001 · Unified consciousness of self has been argued to have some very special properties, for example that the reference to oneself as oneself by which one achieves consciousness of oneself as subject must be indexical and cannot make use of ‘identification’ (Castañeda 1966; Shoemaker 1968; Perry 1979).

    • Andrew Brook, Paul Raymont
    • 2001
  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. 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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  8. This activity of self-formation takes the distinctive shape of education when we are concerned with the development of a self-conscious individual from a less than fully fledged manifestation of its form of life into a fully fledged manifestation of it.