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Published: 16.08.2006.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Philosophy ', 1.
  • Essays 'Philosophy ', 2.
  • Essays 'Philosophy ', 3.
Extract

Self Affirmation as the Knower
To make a judgment is to have a sort of understanding; it is possibly not always the correct judgment. The fact that one is prepared to judge makes one best prepare to judge the "self", which is a concrete and intelligible unity-identity-whole. When the self both affirms and is affirmed and is characterized by sensing, perceiving, imaging, inquiring, understanding, formulating, reflecting, grasping the unconditioned, and affirming is self affirming, and the affirmation is a judgment of fact and the fact is I exist and I exist as a knower. …

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