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Single Idea 5671
[filed under theme 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 2. Knowing the Self
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Full Idea
It would be quite legitimate to claim that the outer senses are at least as important as introspection in the acquisition of self-knowledge.
Gist of Idea
Outer senses are as important as introspection in the acquisition of self-knowledge
Source
Quassim Cassam (Introduction to 'Self-Knowledge' [1994], §I)
Book Ref
'Self-Knowledge', ed/tr. Cassam,Quassim [OUP 1994], p.4
A Reaction
It is interesting to speculate about the extent to which a 'mind in a void' could have a personal identity. Experiences tend to be 'mine' because of my body, which has a history and a space-time location. But this doesn't make identity entirely cultural.
The
29 ideas
with the same theme
[directly acquiring knowledge of our Selves]:
8147
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We have an apparent and a true self; only the second one exists, and we must seek to know it
[Anon (Upan)]
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18463
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Successful introspection reveals the substrate along with the object of thought
[Porphyry]
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21861
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Self-knowledge needs perception of the affections of the body
[Spinoza]
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19362
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We know the 'I' and its contents by abstraction from awareness of necessary truths
[Leibniz]
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5570
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Self-knowledge can only be inner sensation, and thus appearance
[Kant]
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7543
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We gain self-knowledge through action, not thought - especially when doing our duty
[Goethe]
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4191
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What we know in ourselves is not a knower but a will
[Schopenhauer]
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21367
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I know both aspects of my body, as representation, and as will
[Schopenhauer]
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19249
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'Know yourself' is not introspection; it is grasping how others see you
[Peirce]
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20242
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Things are the boundaries of humanity, so all things must be known, for self-knowledge
[Nietzsche]
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20249
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Our knowledge of the many drives that constitute us is hopelessly incomplete
[Nietzsche]
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20378
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Just as skin hides the horrors of the body, vanity conceals the passions of the soul
[Nietzsche]
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4551
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Great self-examination is to become conscious of oneself not as an individual, but as mankind
[Nietzsche]
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22214
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We never meet the Ego, as part of experience, or as left over from experience
[Husserl]
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22162
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There is an everyday self, and an authentic self, when it is grasped in its own way
[Heidegger]
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7117
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How could two I's, the reflective and the reflected, communicate with each other?
[Sartre]
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7123
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Knowing yourself requires an exterior viewpoint, which is necessarily false
[Sartre]
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22225
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My ego is more intimate to me, but not more certain than other egos
[Sartre]
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5322
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Self-consciousness is not basic, because experiences are not instrinsically marked with ownership
[Ayer]
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3073
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We see ourselves in the world as a map
[Harman]
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8129
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Anti-individualism may be incompatible with some sorts of self-knowledge
[Burge]
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5671
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Outer senses are as important as introspection in the acquisition of self-knowledge
[Cassam]
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5672
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Is there a mode of self-awareness that isn't perception, and could it give self-knowledge?
[Cassam]
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5675
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Neither self-consciousness nor self-reference require self-knowledge
[Cassam]
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20218
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The self is known as much by its knowledge as by its action
[Zagzebski]
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18421
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Proprioception is only immune from error if you are certain that it represents the agent
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18422
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Prioprioception focuses on your body parts, not on your self, or indexicality
[Cappelen/Dever]
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18425
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We can acquire self-knowledge with mirrors, not just with proprioception and introspection
[Cappelen/Dever]
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23519
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The self is embodied, perspectival, volitional, narrative and social
[Seth, by PG]
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