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What if Questioned I: Reflections on Self-Understanding

What if Questioned I: Reflections on Self-Understanding

Loewen, G. V.

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1634101936
ISBN13: 9781634101936
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Published: Jun 27 2024
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What does it mean to be a self, and a self which lives? At first, we would seek to alter the which into a who, giving us the sense not only of agency but also of individuality and even perhaps that of purpose. Who is the self who lives? But a distinction must be immediately made; that between self and selfhood. For if we share life with other creatures grand and minuscule, we also share the conception of self with all other persons, and extending in two directions; those predecessors to me who are now passed and constitute the once-living component of the past, as well as those successors, those to come who will also live as human selves. At least unless or until we develop into a new species, which has no need for either self or selfhood, this is what human life is as existence and not merely life. Existence is ipsissimous, life, only autochthonous. The one belongs to itself and is also owned, while the other simply arises from itself and thenceforth is only as it could ever be. (From the introduction.)

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