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  2. The main entry focused on knowledge of ones own mental states. Yet “self-knowledge” can also be used to refer to knowledge of the self and its nature. Issues about knowledge of the self include: (1) how it is that one distinguishes oneself from others, as the object of a self-attribution; (2) whether self-awareness yields a grasp of the ...

  3. Feb 21, 2013 · A self is just a person, a living, breathing, thinking human being. We use the particle ‘self’ to form reflexive pronouns, like “myself” and “yourself”, and these pronouns, refer to persons.

  4. 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.

  5. The philosophy of self examines the idea of the self at a conceptual level. Many different ideas on what constitutes self have been proposed, including the self being an activity, the self being independent of the senses, the bundle theory of the self, the self as a narrative center of gravity, and the self as a linguistic or social construct ...

  6. 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. At least since Descartes, most philosophers have believed that self-knowledge differs markedly from our knowledge of the external world (where this includes our knowledge ...

  7. Learning Objectives. By the end of this section, you will be able to: Apply the dilemma of persistence to self and identity. Outline Western and Eastern theological views of self. Describe secular views of the self. Describe the mind-body problem.

  8. Jan 15, 2009 · Sometimes ‘I’ is used to refer to a human being considered as a whole, sometimes it is used to refer to a self. These are two things that have quite different identity‐conditions, if indeed selves exist, and that stand—I will argue—in some sort of straightforward part–whole relation. 3.

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