scholarly journals SELF-SEEKING TOWARDS SELF-KNOWLEDGE IN THE CONFESSIONS’ BOOK WRITTEN BY SAINT AUGUSTINE

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Abdul Muaz ◽  
Hanif Nurcholish Adiantika ◽  
Sarip Sarip
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
The Self ◽  
True Self ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Primary Reference ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of

This study aims to investigate Self-Seeking towards Self-Knowledge which plays an essential role for the life moment of the famous and distinguished Christian mystic namely Saint Augustine. He seeks and asks about himself as a human being, both horizontally [his relationship with another man], and vertically [his relationship with God the Creator]. He also reveals the answers toward his questions and searching. It can be explored in his masterpiece entitled ‘The Confession’. This study also relies on this book, as the primary reference, to explore and analyze Self-Seeking and Self-Knowledge in Western Mysticism. Therefore, the present study addresses research questions as follow: What is the definition of true Self-Seeking in general? What kind of Self-Knowledge offered by Saint Augustine inside the circumstance of the Western Mysticism Treasury? What is the significance of the Self-Seeking and the Self-Knowledge which is relevant with the current context?      

Lying and Self-Deception

2018 ◽  
pp. 202-213
Author(s):  
Kathi Beier
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Self ◽  
Virtue Theory ◽  
True Self ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Motivational Bias

Given the definitions of lying and self-deception, it would be wrong to understand self-deception as lying to oneself. It seems, however, that any definition of self-deception gives rise to two paradoxes. According to the ‘static paradox’, self-deception involves believing ‘p and not-p’ at the same time. According to the ‘dynamic paradox’, self-deception involves the intention to deceive oneself. If both claims were true, self-deception would seem to be impossible. ‘Divisionists’ try to solve the first paradox by arguing that the human mind is divided into several subsystems such that the self-deceiver consciously believes that p while unconsciously believing that not-p. ‘Non-intentionalists’ try to solve the second paradox by arguing that self-deception is based on a ‘motivational bias’. Since both explanations fall short of accounting for the blameworthiness of self-deception, a third approach examines the phenomenon from the perspective of virtue theory, claiming that self-deceivers have not yet succeeded in developing the virtue of accuracy.

El sentido de la confessio en los Soliloquia y en las Confessiones

Augustinus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-296
Author(s):  
Enrique Eguiarte ◽  
Mauricio Saavedra ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Saint Augustine ◽  
The Self ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
Sacred Scripture ◽  
Self Knowledge

In this article, some parallels between the Soliloquia and Confessiones are revealed, particularly as concerning the self-knowledge (nouerim me) and the knowledge of God, two elements that the article links to the augustinian concept of confessio, in its different meanings, such as confessio laudis, confessio fidei, confessio peccatorum, confessio amoris, as well as the implications that this confessio has with other elements, such as the petitio considerationis, that is, the request made by Saint Augustine to God to be heard. The presence of the petitio considerationis has been analyzed not only in the text of the Soliloquia, but also within the text of the Confessiones, following its traces through four psalms where this petitio considerationis has left its marks, to indicate the various elements in which St. Augustine invites us to reflect, and highlighting, in particular, the importance that the Sacred Scripture has for St. Augustine. Finally, the presentation of the reading strategies and the implicit readers that St. Augustine presents both within the Soliloquia and within the Confessions is discussed.

scholarly journals In search of the True Self

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrico Facco ◽  
Benedikt Emanuel Al Khafaji ◽  
Patrizio Tressoldi
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
True Self ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Eastern Philosophies ◽  
The Continuum

The Self is an interdisciplinary topic encompassing neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and anthropology. Despite the wealth of data available on the topic, its definition remains elusive, while its meaning overlaps with terms such as consciousness, Ego and I, and so has created more confusion and redundancy rather than clarity. Its study is also endowed with deep epistemological and metaphysical implications, on which the accepted axioms, theories and the method of investigation closely depend. Eastern philosophies have faced the problem of self-knowledge for some three millennia, achieving well-founded and valuable knowledge through introspection and meditation, and their results are worth being appraised in the Western, scientific study of the Self. We propose that the Self is related to the highest level of awareness in the continuum Ego-I-Self and, given its exclusively subjective nature (likewise consciousness), it can only be comprehensively explored through a neurophenomenological approach by merging the first and third person perspectives.

scholarly journals Le voyage comme palimpseste identitaire dans Grande Section, le premier roman d’Hadia Decharrière

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Belén Soto
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Definition Of

En el contexto actual, el viaje y el movimiento desempeñan un papel esencial en la definición de fronteras geopolíticas a la vez que identitarias. En este sentido, cabe poner de relieve cómo el mosaico literario de las xenografías francófonas contemporáneas refleja la impronta de los procesos migratorios actuales que dibujan un nuevo paseo y paisaje en las letras románicas. En el presente artículo, nos proponemos analizar Grande Section, la primera novela de Hadia Decharrière, con el objetivo de ilustrar la preponderancia de la escritura autoficcional en el ámbito literario ya citado. Asimismo, esta novela nos permitirá abordar los matices particulares que la temática del viaje adquiere en su proyecto escriptural. Su temática, inicialmente ligada al desplazamiento geográfico, nos permitirá esbozar las consecuencias de este desarraigo identitario con significado ontológico. In the current context, travel and movement play an essential role in the definition of geopolitical borders as well as identity. In this sense, it is worth highlighting how the literary mosaic of contemporary Francophone xenographs reflects the imprint of current migratory processes that draw a new path and landscape in Romanesque literature. In this article, we propose to analyse Grande Section, Hadia Decharrière’s first novel, with the aim of illustrating the preponderance of autofictional writing in the aforementioned literary field. Also, this novel will allow us to address the particular nuances that the topic of the trip acquires in its scriptural project. Its theme, initially linked to geographical displacement, will allow us to outline the consequences of this identity uprooting with ontological meaning.

scholarly journals The Capacity of Self-Relevant Long-Term Memories

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian De Freitas ◽  
Lance J. Rips ◽  
George Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
True Self ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Memory Processing ◽  
Referential Processing ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Shed Light

What we know as the self is not just one unified construct, but consists of various self-concepts that are continuously created, revised, and discarded, such as “woman”, “Thai national”, “Northwestern student”, and “true self”. These rich, variegated self-concepts help organize our endeavors throughout the different domains of our lives. How do we store information associated with each of these self-concepts without confusing them in long-term memory? We uncover two mechanisms that support this ability— one that arises from the nature of long-term memory processing, and the other that arises from the nature of self-referential processing. Specifically, people are less likely to confuse memories for self-concepts that are more distinct, and they are more likely to remember information for the self than for others. Together, the studies shed light on the mechanisms that support our impressively rich store of self knowledge.

Le premier moment de l’art dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust – une « leçon d’idéalisme » ?

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Larisa Botnari
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
The Self ◽  
Philosophy Of Art ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
Lost Time ◽  
Aesthetic Thinking

Although very famous, some key moments of the novel In Search of Lost Time, such as those of the madeleine or the uneven pavement, often remain enigmatic for the reader. Our article attempts to formulate a possible philosophical interpretation of the narrator's experiences during these scenes, through a confrontation of the Proustian text with the ideas found in the System of Transcendental Idealism (1800) of the German philosopher F. W. J. Schelling. We thus try to highlight the essential role of the self in Marcel Proust's aesthetic thinking, by showing that the mysterious happiness felt by the narrator, and from which the project of creating a work of art is ultimately born, is similar to the experiences of pure self-consciousness evoked and analyzed by Schellingian philosophy of art.

The ”true me”—one or many?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Berent ◽  
Melanie Platt
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Optimality Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
True Self ◽  
Behavioral Test ◽  
Brain Scan ◽  
Moral Behaviors ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Constraint Ranking

Recent results suggest that people hold a notion of the true self, distinct from the self. Here, we seek to further elucidate the “true me”—whether it is good or bad, material or immaterial. Critically, we ask whether the true self is unitary. To address these questions, we invited participants to reason about John—a character who simultaneously exhibits both positive and negative moral behaviors. John’s character was gauged via two tests--a brain scan and a behavioral test, whose results invariably diverged (i.e., one test indicated that John’s moral core is positive and another negative). Participants assessed John’s true self along two questions: (a) Did John commit his acts (positive and negative) freely? and (b) What is John’s essence really? Responses to the two questions diverged. When asked to evaluate John’s moral core explicitly (by reasoning about his free will), people invariably descried John’s true self as good. But when John’s moral core was assessed implicitly (by considering his essence), people sided with the outcomes of the brain test. These results demonstrate that people hold conflicting notions of the true self. We formally support this proposal by presenting a grammar of the true self, couched within Optimality Theory. We show that the constraint ranking necessary to capture explicit and implicit view of the true self are distinct. Our intuitive belief in a true unitary “me” is thus illusory.

Delving into Horror

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 135-150
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Definition Of

The springboard for this essay is the author’s encounter with the feeling of horror and her attempts to understand what place horror has in philosophy. The inquiry relies upon Leonid Lipavsky’s “Investigation of Horror” and on various textual plunges into the fanged and clawed (and possibly noumenal) abyss of Nick Land’s work. Various experiences of horror are examined in order to build something of a typology, while also distilling the elements characteristic of the experience of horror in general. The essay’s overall hypothesis is that horror arises from a disruption of the usual ways of determining the boundaries between external things and the self, and this leads to a distinction between three subtypes of horror. In the first subtype, horror begins with the indeterminacy at the boundaries of things, a confrontation with something that defeats attempts to define it and thereby calls into question the definition of the self. In the second subtype, horror springs from the inability to determine one’s own boundaries, a process opposed by the crushing determinacy of the world. In the third subtype, horror unfolds by means of a substitution of one determinacy by another which is unexpected and ungrounded. In all three subtypes of horror, the disturbance of determinacy deprives the subject, the thinking entity, of its customary foundation for thought, and even of an explanation of how that foundation was lost; at times this can lead to impairment of the perception of time and space. Understood this way, horror comes within a hair’s breadth of madness - and may well cross over into it.

scholarly journals Promotion of Resilience in Migrants: A Systematic Review of Study and Psychosocial Intervention

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Ciaramella ◽  
Nadia Monacelli ◽  
Livia Concetta Eugenia Cocimano
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Psychosocial Intervention ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Migrant Population ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis systematic review aimed to contribute to a better and more focused understanding of the link between the concept of resilience and psychosocial interventions in the migrant population. The research questions concerned the type of population involved, definition of resilience, methodological choices and which intervention programmes were targeted at migrants. In the 90 articles included, an heterogeneity in defining resilience or not well specified definition resulted. Different migratory experiences were not adequately considered in the selection of participants. Few resilience interventions on migrants were resulted. A lack of procedure’s descriptions that keep in account specific migrants’ life-experiences and efficacy’s measures were highlighted.

scholarly journals Das Verhältnis von Selbstwerdung und Gott bei Sören Kierkegaard. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-164
Author(s):  
Thomas Park
Keyword(s):  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
True Self ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Fear And Trembling

AbstractIn Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard (alias Johannes de Silentio) writes that Abraham intended to sacrifice Isaac for God’s sake as well as for his own sake. Drawing mainly on The Sickness unto Death I will argue that Kierkegaard construes Abraham as becoming a true self, that is, as someone who becomes self-transparent before God. What this means and how our relationship with God is supposed to be involved in the process of becoming a self is the focus of my paper. While various articles have been written on that topic, my aim here is to give the most charitable interpretation of Kierkegaard’s theses and the theological concepts involved.

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