Or it may mean your ego* is completely satisfied. — ArielAssante
Laing also looks at the idea of 'ontological security', and he argues that a 'basically ontological secure person will encounter all the hazards of life, social, ethical, spiritual, biological from a centrally firm sense of his own and other people's reality and identity. — Jack Cummins
As far as others' opinions, it may vary how much one can step outside of social expectations. However, part of who one is may be about choices of moving outside specific circles, including family or communities, such as those of a church. Often, to break with certain social ties can involve courage as most people rely on a certain amount of social support. — Jack Cummins
Where does the idea of "true self" come from? What is it based on?I am asking the question of what it means to find the "true" self. — Jack Cummins
How can it be considered as "true"? As opposed or compared to what? False, fake, divided, imagined, idealized? — Alkis Piskas
I am asking the question of what it means to find the "true" self. It is a fairly complex question because it involves the social and existential sense of selfhood? How important is the idea of a 'true' self? To what extent is the self bound up with relationships with others, or as being, alone, in relation to the wider cosmos, and making sense of this? — Jack Cummins
To my mind, in sum, each one of us is a heteronomous¹ (e.g. natal-embodied, socialized, historicized ...) being who, at best, strives for integrity – to do what one says and say what one does – in living according to one's ability to keep one's expectations aligned, or consistent, with reality.I am asking the question of what it means to find the "true" self. It is a fairly complex question because it involves the social and existential sense of selfhood? How important is the idea of a 'true' self? To what extent is the self bound up with relationships with others, or as being, alone, in relation to the wider cosmos, and making sense of this? — Jack Cummins
Insofar as "God" is a three-letter swear word for ego, I believe my own "loss of God" made me less ego-centric rather than more, though not nearly as other-centric as Buber seems (or, even moreso, Levinas). The I-Thou relationship without "the eternal Thou" (or thou separate from the I-Thou encounter) speaks morally and existentially to me; and so, paraphrasing the famed Cartesian bumpersticker, You (We) are, therefore I am. :smirk:in some ways the loss of God as the significant other may lead to a far greater narcissism — Jack Cummins
I am asking the question of what it means to find the "true" self. It is a fairly complex question because it involves the social and existential sense of selfhood? How important is the idea of a 'true' self? To what extent is the self bound up with relationships with others, or as being, alone, in relation to the wider cosmos, and making sense of this? — Jack Cummins
a fragmentary or fragile self that it becomes unstable. — Jack Cummins
... ergo anatta. :flower:t may be that there is no 'true' self and it is a mythic concept. — Jack Cummins
there is no 'true' self — Jack Cummins
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