Self-complemented perspective of self-knowledge

1998 ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
M. E. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Roles ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Self Knowledge

I suggest a description of the theory that I find applicable to understanding self-knowledge. The theory of its own complexity focuses on the structure of individual thoughts about themselves. Own complexity concerns two features of a person's self-determination: the number of social roles that a person has, and the ability of a person to differentiate among these roles. For example, I would be considered a weak bearer of the idea of ​​my own complexity if I considered myself as the bearer of a relatively small number of roles and I would describe existing roles as similar to those that I carry out. I would have a greater degree of my own complexity if I looked at the number of roles I increased and made more distinctions between them.

scholarly journals Birthing from Within: Nature, Technology, and Self-Making in Silicon Valley Childbearing

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ford
Keyword(s):  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Mutual Accountability ◽  
Gendered Expectations

Through examining childbearing in California’s Silicon Valley, this article describes how seeking “self-actualization” has become a rite of passage for contemporary childbearing people. This approach undermines distinctions between “technological” and “natural” approaches to birth, as people are coached to leverage both logistical and animalistic capacities to produce “self-knowledge” and enact new feminist ways of doing embodiment. Based on fieldwork conducted as a doula, this article describes new rituals, anxieties, and aspirations that draw from both the idea that self-authenticity stems from an unadulterated, primordial nature and that self-realization is enabled by a very modern, reflexive strategy of self-design. In this community, the way reproduction comes to matter has less to do with realizing gendered expectations and kinship relations than with creative self-optimization. This approach facilitates women’s self-determination, while simultaneously introducing new forms of pressure and advancing a dominant cultural discourse that minimizes thinking about structural conditions and mutual accountability.

Ästhetik und Poetik des Selbst

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Noemi Tömmel
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
The Future ◽  
Aesthetic Attitude ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

Im Zentrum der Ästhetik und Kulturtheorie des nahezu vergessenen jüdischen Aufklärers Lazarus Bendavid (1762-1832) steht das Verhältnis von moralischem und ästhetischem Fortschritt. Dieser Aufsatz stellt drei komplementäre Theorien Bendavids vor, denen zufolge ästhetische Phänomene Moralität befördern: Erstens behauptet Bendavid, dass die ästhetische Selbsterfahrung auch die Einfühlung in andere Menschen ermögliche und deshalb zu deren Anerkennung einen entscheidenden Beitrag leiste. Zweitens geht er davon aus, dass der Ästhetiker sich nicht nur theoretisch erkennt, sondern auch praktisch-autopoietisch bestimmt. Zugleich Künstler und Kunstwerk, verwirklicht er durch kulturelle Artefakte seine Autonomie. Drittens verbindet sich mit der Ästhetik eine Rechtfertigung des Menschen: Trotz aller menschlichen Unzulänglichkeiten sieht die ästhetische Einstellung die Gleichheit und Zusammengehörigkeit aller Menschen und verheißt damit einen moralisch besseren Zustand in der Zukunft. The works of Jewish enlightenment thinker Lazarus Bendavid (1762-1832) are virtually forgotten today. His aesthetic and cultural theory focused on the relationship between moral and aesthetic progress. The present essay discusses Bendavid’s three complementary theories on how aesthetic phenomena promote morality: Firstly, he claims that aesthetic self-experience leads to empathy and therefore to social recognition. Secondly, he suggests that aesthetics do not only facilitate theoretical self-knowledge, but also practical, autopoietic self-determination. At once artist and artwork, the human subject realizes autonomy through cultural artefacts. Thirdly, he associates aesthetics with a justification of man: Despite all human shortcomings, an aesthetic attitude helps recognizing the equality and shared identity of all people and thereby promises a morally superior state in the future.

WOMEN WITHOUT MEN. THE FATE OF THE OLD BELIEVERS OF UPPER KAMA REGION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY, CHRISTIANITY AND COMPROMISE

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Litvina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Rich Material

Upper Kama region (Verkhokamye) is considered as one of the most studied regions of the Old Believers. The research interest has long been focused on the manifestations of a high spiritual and rich material culture.However, in the 20th century, the region underwent complex transformations. As a result social roles changed and also their religious assessment. The article considers several women’s strategies of self-determination in life (“the synodic’’, “wayward”, “girlfriend/mate”), as well as the development of compromise assessments of each category by the Old Believers society

scholarly journals ¿Es compatible el deporte en edad escolar con otros roles sociales? Un estudio a través de la Teoría de la Autodeterminación (It is compatible the sport in scholar age with other social roles? A study through Self-Determination Theory)

Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 50-52
Author(s):  
Diana Amado Alonso ◽  
Francisco Miguel Leo Marcos ◽  
David Sánchez Oliva ◽  
Inmaculada González Ponce ◽  
José María López Chamorro
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Sport Activity ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Young Athletes ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
Sport Practice ◽  
The Relationship

El objetivo principal de este estudio fue examinar la relación entre la percepción de conflicto o utilidad del deporte respecto a otros papeles sociales y el nivel de autodeterminación en jóvenes deportistas, indagando sobre las diferencias que existen entre estas variables en función del género. Para ello, se utilizó una muestra de 1897 jugadores de diferentes disciplinas deportivas, 1378 de género masculino y 519 de género femenino. Los participantes rellenaron un cuestionario para medir el nivel de autodeterminación y otro para valorar el conflicto entre roles sociales. Los resultados mostraron que la utilidad del deporte se relacionaba positiva y significativamente con la motivación autoderminada mientras que el conflicto entre roles se relacionaba de esta misma forma con la desmotivación. Asimismo, los chicos mostraron puntuaciones elevadas en todos los tipos de motivación que abarca la teoría de la autodeterminación, siendo los que mayor incompatibilidad percibían entre el deporte y otros papeles sociales propios de su etapa de crecimiento. Como conclusión se destaca la necesidad de crear motivos de práctica intrínsecos en ambos géneros para favorecer el compromiso con la actividad deportiva y evitar el abandono que se puede producir por las exigencias de otros contextos que rodean al joven deportista. Palabra clave: conflicto entre roles, autodeterminación, práctica deportiva, edad escolar, género.Abstract: TThe main aim of this study was to examine the relationship between perception of conflict or utility of the sport regarding other social roles and self-determination level in young athletes, focusing on differences among these variables with respect to sex. Hence, we used a sample size of 1897 players from different sport modalities, 1378 male and 519 female. Participants filled a questionnaire to assess self-determination level and other to measure conflict between social roles. Results showed that utility of sport was positive and significantly associated with self-determined motivation, whereas conflict between roles was related with amotivation. Moreover, male athletes showed higher scores in all types of motivation that refer Self-Determination Theory, being the group that perceived the greater incompatibility between sport and other social roles according to their growth age. As a conclusion, we emphasize the necessity to promote intrinsic motives of practice in both sex to increase commitment with the sport activity, and avoid sport dropout that might be happened because of the demands of other contexts that surround young athletes.Key words: Conflict between roles, self-determination, sport practice, scholar age, genre.

scholarly journals Praca osób z głębszą niepełnosprawnością intelektualną jako źródło emancypacji w kontekście samorealizacji

2018 ◽  
pp. 251-268
Author(s):  
Irena Ramik-Mażewska
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Close Correlation ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Autonomous Action ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Personal Nature ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities

The problem of normalization, autonomy and self-determination of people with intellectual disabilities in special education has already taken its place. The consequence of this continuing discourse is the personal nature of disability, international, timeless declarations and modifications of already established rights. Recently, the emancipatory trend is gaining in importance in this discourse. It remains in close correlation with the primary objective of educating people with intellectual disabilities which is comprehensive preparation for life. It is a form of conscious self-reliance, self-knowledge and capacity to take autonomous action. One of the areas of development of self-reliance is work. The resulting interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences can become the path to emancipation. Sometimes, one that goes beyond the standards of rehabilitation.

scholarly journals Genesis and content concept of professional self-determination of personality

2018 ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Nataliia Оshurkevych
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Multicomponent Nature

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of professional self-determination of personality and its relevance in contemporary socio-economic conditions. An analysis of the work of domestic and foreign scholars on the problem of professional self-determination of personality, made it possible to find out that there is no single theory in the understanding of the process of professional self-determination of personality. The article reveals the essence of the concepts of «personality», «profession», «professional self-determination», «professional self-determination of personality», «self-determination». The genesis is analyzed and approaches to the definition of the essence of the concept of «professional self-determination of personality» are considered. The emphasis is placed on the professional self-determination of a personality as a multicomponent phenomenon that is interconnected with professional development and the formation of an individual. The author’s definition of the concept of «professional self-determination of personality» is proposed as a prolonged, dynamic and phased process of self-knowledge and professional choice, influenced by external and internal factors of the subject. It has been established that in the writings of leading scholars there is an increased interest in the problem of professional self-determination of personality. The great experience of the various concepts and theoretical approaches developed to understanding the problem of professional self-determination of personality points to the complexity and multicomponent nature of the phenomenon of «professional self-determination of personality», as well as its close connection with the person’s self-determination of the person, his self-realization, self-actualization and self-knowledge in professional activity.

scholarly journals The Complex Relation of Self-determination to Destiny in Oedipus Tyrannos

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Ruoqi Li
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Fundamental Significance ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Way

<p>Oedipus Rex, one of the three famed Theban tragedies by the Greek dramatist Sophocles, vividly portrays the complex and often troubling theme of humanity’s relationship to fate. By detailing the way in which Oedipus, king of Thebes, is reduced by the cruelty of predestination into a puppet with no semblance of control over the course of his own life, Sophocles seems to cast doubt on, not only the effectiveness, but also the meaning of self-control. Thus, freedom of choice, humanity’s final assertion of independence, appears to dissolve into hollow mockery. But even then, Sophocles confirms the fundamental significance of the self-knowledge and dignity that comes from struggling against tyrannical destiny. It is this dignity that sustains king Oedipus through his terrible ordeal so that he comes out of it tortured but not destroyed. It is also this elevation that adds to a tale of endless victimization a whole new dimension of complexity and imbues the words with a touch of tragic and transfiguring sublimity.</p>

Self-Knowledge and Self-Determination at the Limits of Capitalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
Sinclair Thomson
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Global South ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Critical Theorist

Abstract This text is an introduction to the new English translation of critical theorist René Zavaleta Mercado’s Towards a History of the National-Popular in Bolivia: 1879–1980. It surveys principal themes in the book and discusses why Zavaleta (1935–84) is a pertinent thinker for the global South and capitalist periphery today.

scholarly journals Metaphysics of the Divine Intellection in Marius Victorinus and its Possible Philosophical Sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-128
Author(s):  
Alexey Ruslanovych Fokin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
God The Father ◽  
The One ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Internal Potential

The article deals with the doctrine of Marius Victorinus (ca. 281/291‒382/386) on the Divine thinking or intellection, and provides a reconstruction of its possible philosophical sources. In the beginning the author after a breaf mentioning of Aristotle’s noetic theory in his “Metaphysica” emphasizes an important role of the neoplatonic doctrine of the “intelligible triad” in the Trinitarian doctrine of Victorinus, in which God is seen as the unity of the three Divine attributes, potencies or acts: being, life and thought, which correspond to the persons of the Christian Trinity. It is noted that the relationship between these Divine acts has a dynamic character, based on the logic of the eternal process of self-determination of God as the pure Being (Father), which defines himself as the Life (Son) and returns to himself as the Intellect (Holy Spirit), by which the fullness of Divine self-knowledge is achieved. This process Victorinus also connects with the idea of God as an absolute Spirit –a Substance that exists, lives and thinks of itself. Further the author consideres Victorinus’ concept of two actions and movements in God: one is internal, characterizing God the Father, the other is external, characterizing the Son-Logos. It has been argued that this doctrine goes back to the similar doctrine of Plotinus, which he applies to the One and the Intellect. It is noted that Victorinus in the light of the Neo-Platonic dialectics of the One and the Intellect reconsidered an Aristotelian theory of Divine intellect, which thinks of itself. He not only applies it to the Son-Logos, but also joins to it a Plotinian-Porphyrian conception of the “super-thinking” of the One, as a result of which Divine thinking according to Victorinus has two different forms: an internal, potential, hidden and unmanifest thinking (or “super-thinking”) of God the Father, and an external, actual and manifested thinking (or “self-thinking”) of the Son-Logos; the latter initially dwells in the internal thinking of the Father, and then was genereted from it as a Divine thinking that thinks both of the Father and of itself, becoming self-knowledge or self-thinking.

scholarly journals The role of self-educational activities in improving the methodological competence of the teacher

KANT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-345
Author(s):  
Olga Yurtayeva
Keyword(s):  
Self Determination ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Self Knowledge

The article discusses the essence of the concept of "self-education", "self-educational activities". The contents of such psychological mechanisms as self-knowledge, reflection, self-determination of a University teacher in improving their work as a teacher are analyzed, its main types are defined and characterized, as well as a set of methodological skills aimed at the effective implementation of professional and pedagogical activities of teacher is analyzed.

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