An Attempt at a Phenomenological Description of the Self-Knowledge Process in the Chandogya Upanishad

Author(s):  
Marta Kudelska
Author(s):  
Ilga Kusnere

The quality of a teacher's professional activity is closely tied to personal growth. Personal growth, however, is influenced by self-knowledge (K. G. Jung 1994, 2001; Wilber 2010, 2013; Plotkin, 2020; Dispenza, 2015, 2016). Nowadays, there is a shift in the approaches of upbringing and educational work – from a child-focused approach to a child-centered one (OECD, 2019). Therefore, one of the currently relevant skills is getting to know oneself in order to cooperate more successfully with others and be able to accept real-life situations. The results obtained confirm that through the self-knowledge process, teachers get to experience their own personality growth. Categories such as empathy, attitude, and daringness are identified in personal growth.The research shows that by experiencing the procedural activities of self-knowledge with the help of “Get to know yourself!” method and methodological tool developed by the author, teachers improve their emotional responsiveness.The results of the study show that through the experiences gained in the self-knowledge process, teachers learn to integrate new models of action into their pedagogical activities. The aim of the study was to show the importance of self-knowledge in improving teachers' emotional responsiveness in lifelong education, by using the method "Get to know yourself!" developed by the author of the study.The objectives of the study were literature examination and evaluation and work with the target audience by using the author's method and methodological tool "Get to know yourself!".Methods: Literature studies, survey, observation. 


Phainomenon ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-153
Author(s):  
Pierre-Jean Renaudie

Abstract Do we appear to ourselves in a specific way that requires a phenomenological description? Do we need a phenomenology of self-knowledge? Another way to raise this question about the legitimacy of a phenomenological approach to the Self is to ask whether a philosophical analysis of the linguistic use of the personal pronouns is able to provide a satisfactory account of self-knowledge. Does the linguistic turn make phenomenology superfluous? Discussing the respective merits of the linguistic and phenomenological approaches to the concept of the Self through a crossed analysis of Sartre, Ricoeur, and Descombes, this paper stresses the complementarity between a phenomenological approach that focuses on the way we appear to ourselves and a linguistic analysis of the first-person pronoun. It claims that this relation of complementarity makes both approaches necessary to put forward the paradoxes of self-knowledge.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 1216-1234
Author(s):  
Maria de Nazaré Moraes Soares ◽  
Silvia Maria Dias Pedro Rebouças ◽  
Jose Carlos Lazaro

Purpose  – The research aims to discuss substantive rationality in the context of Solidarity Economy (SE) and women's self-management practices in the Solidarity and Feminist Economy Network [SFEN], based on the voices of women themselves.Design/methodology/approach – The research uses an exploratory and qualitative, from the perspective of thematic oral history. It is a search for representativeness of other forms of organization through otherness and a post-colonial view of the Administration.Findings - The productive groups of women of the SFEN are configured as substantive organizations. Under the self-management paradigm, reveal an alternative way of producing and commercialization, bringing together the dimensions of work and life in order to allow the construction of an inclusive economy, which could be alignment with the enclave “isonomy” of Guerreiro Ramos.Research limitations/implications – As an exploratory study, it was not possible in this article go deepen the gender issue in the daily practice of women in the productive group.Practical implications – The use of the self-management paradigm in an inclusive economy situation presents these production groups with a real alternative to understanding themselves as active participants in the economy.Social implications - The study brings the reflection of the participants of the productive groups about their active position in society, generates a self-assessment of their activities, serving the analysis also as an opening for reassessments and reapplications of the self-knowledge process of such groups.Originality/value – There is a gap in management research discussing solidarity economy, self-management, feminist organizations and substantive organizations by Guerreiro Ramos.


Author(s):  
Victoria Gonța ◽  
Elena Roșcan

This article addresses the subject of self-knowledge as a necessity for the personaldevelopment process in achieving the own life ideal. We have set out to consider whether the self-knowledge process is an approach that occurs naturally, as a trend towards the integrity of a human being or synergy with the surrounding world, up to the union with transcendence or a preoccupation, a conscious, eff ervescent search, that requires interest and eff ort in developing the potentialities until the fulfi lment of the achieved self at the highest level. Is this process a component part of motivation in achieving success within profession, our relations with others or our development actions, from intuitive structures of individual thinking and primary conduct of group and society integration, to elements of metacognition, creativity and society integration through high moral values?


2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-228
Author(s):  
Anita Kasabova

Abstract How the self perceives reality is a traditional topic of research across several disciplines. I examine the perceived self on Facebook, as a case-study of self-knowledge on „classical” social media. Following Blascovich & Bailenson (2011), I consider the distinction between the real and the virtual as relative. Perceptual self-knowledge, filtered through social media, requires rethinking the perceived self in terms of social reality (Neisser, 1993). This claim dovetails Jenkins’s (2013) notion of the self as an active participant in consumption. I argue that the perceived self in social media could be conceived in terms of how it would like to be perceived and appraised by its virtual audience. Using Neisser’s (1993) typology of self-knowledge and Castañeda’s (1983) theory of I-guises, I analyse seven samples from Anglo-American and Bulgarian Facebook sites and show that the perceived self produces itself online as a captivating presence with a credible story. My samples are taken from FB community pages with negligible cultural differences across an online teenage/twens (twixter) age group. I then discuss some problematic aspects of the perceived self online, as well as recent critiques of technoconsumerism.


2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-43
Author(s):  
Sonia Sikka

AbstractThrough a reading of Nietzsche's texts, primarily of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, this article develops a phenomenological description of the variety of intoxication exemplified in conditions of drunkenness, or in states of emotional excess. It treats Thus Spoke Zarathustra as a literary expression of such intoxication, arguing against attempts to find a coherent narrative structure and clear authorial voice behind this text's apparent disorder. Having isolated the intoxicated characteristics of Thus Spoke Zarathustra - its hyperbolic rhetoric and emotions, its lack of balance, its injustice, its shifting and conflicting moods, and its self-contradictions - I then offer an interpretation of the work, and by extension of intoxication itself, in terms of Nietzsche's model of the self as a dynamic multiplicity of forces. At the same time, I argue for a multiple and dynamic conception of personality in general.


2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon D. Podmore

Despair (sickness of the spirit) and divine forgiveness are decisive psychological and theological themes essential to both Søren Kierkegaard's relational vision of ‘the self before God’ and his own personal struggles with guilt and the consciousness of sin. Reading Kierkegaard as both a physician and a patient of this struggle, therefore, this article examines The Sickness unto Death (1849) as an attempt to resolve the sinful ‘self’ by integrating a psychological perspective on despair with a theology of the forgiveness of sins. It is suggested that by presenting this integrative notion of self-knowledge through the ‘higher’ Christian pseudonym of Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard is indicting his own resistances to accepting divine forgiveness and thereby operating—via a ‘higher’ pastoral identity—as a physician to his own soul. By diagnosing the unconscious psychological and theological relationships between sin/forgiveness, offense, and human impossibility/divine possibility, Kierkegaard finally reveals faith—as a self-surrendering recognition of acceptance before the Holy Other—to be the key to unlocking the enigma of the self in despair.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Navi Agustina Mas'udi ◽  
Ajeng Aisyah

Masalah yang terjadi pada remaja  panti asuhan adalah kurangnya rasa percaya diri . Tujuan Kegiatan mengenal diri ini adalah untuk meningkatkan rasa percaya diri remaja di panti asuhan. Kegiatan mengenal diri dilakukan dalam 3 sesi yaitu ceramah, games/permainan dan diskusi. Sasaran Kegiatan ini adalah 20 Remaja berusia sekolah dasar sampai Sekolah menengah atas yang tinggal di Panti Asuhan Aisyiyah dan 6 remaja di Panti Asuhan Muhammadiyah. Dari pengamatan ketika acara berlangsung, peserta sangat antusias mengikuti Kegiatan mengenal diri terutama ketika dilakukan dengan metode permainan /games. Dari Kegiatan  ini seluruh  peserta menyukai pemberian materi dengan permainan, karena terjalin komunikasi dan keakraban. Dari hasil Permainan Edukatif terungkap   100% peserta mengungkapan kelebihan  diri dalam aspek psikomotorik seperti kepandaian  menyanyi dan olahraga, 60% pada aspek kognitif  seperti suka membaca dan mudah menghafal pelajaran dan 40% pada aspek afeksi  yaitu ramah, suka menolong dan peduli pada teman. Evaluasi dilakukan setelah 3 pekan. Dari hasil Evaluasi menggunakan kuisioner, 85% peserta menjawab semakin memahami makna percaya diri dan 100%   peserta memahami bagaimana menumbuhkan rasa percaya diri dengan bersyukur dan terus menggali potensi yang mereka miliki. The problem that occurs in orphanages is a lack of self-confidence. The purpose of this self-knowledge activity is to increase the self-confidence of teenagers in the orphanage. Self-knowledge activities are carried out in 3 sessions, namely lectures, games, and discussions. The target of this activity is 20 teenagers from elementary school to senior high school who live in the Aisyiyah Orphanage and 6 teenagers at the Muhammadiyah Orphanage. From observations when the event took place, participants were very enthusiastic about participating in self-knowledge activities, especially when carried out with the game method. From this activity, all participants liked providing material with games, because communication and intimacy were established. From the results of the Educational Game, it was revealed that 100% of participants expressed their strengths in psychomotor aspects such as singing and sports skills, 60% on cognitive aspects such as reading and memorizing lessons easily and 40% on affective aspects, namely friendly, helpful, and caring for friends. Evaluation was carried out after 3 weeks. From the results of the evaluation using a questionnaire, 85% of participants answered that they understood the meaning of self-confidence more and 100% of participants understood how to grow self-confidence by being grateful and continuing to explore their potential.


Author(s):  
Jorge Martínez Lucena

ABSTRACTLast years, phenomenology has demonstrated its own value in the field of medicine with useful distinctions as the one among illness and disease. It has also contributed to psychiatry. Some inter-disciplinary works about mental illnesses can be found. The phenomenological description of the melancholic depression patient has three main features: a) the transformation of his own body experience; b) a continuous feeling of guilt; and c) a time experience which is desynchronized from the otherness. This paper aims to synthetize this phenomenological research about depression, which has been considered one of the plagues of our time. Moreover, it tries to explain how these changes in the patient’s experience can imply certain modifications of his own self-experience.RESUMENEn los últimos años la fenomenología ha demostrado su valía en el campo de la medicina con útiles distinciones como la hecha entre conceptos como illness y disease. También ha hecho interesantes aportaciones en el campo de la psiquiatría donde se pueden encontrar trabajos interdisciplinarios sobre la diversas enfermedades mentales. La descripción fenomenológica de la experiencia del enfermo de depresión melancólica constaría de tres elementos fundamentales: a) la transformación de la experiencia del propio cuerpo; b) el continuo sentimiento de culpa; y c) una experiencia del tiempo desincronizada con respecto a la alteridad. Esta comunicación intenta aportar una síntesis de dicha investigación fenomenológica hecha sobre la depresión, que ha sido considerada la plaga de nuestro tiempo. Además, intenta explicar en qué sentido tales elementos de la descripción fenomenológica de la experiencia del paciente de melancolía pueden implicar ciertas modificaciones de la experiencia que éste hace de su propio self.


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