Being in the World as Self-Making: On the Logical Concept of a Personal Life (original) (raw)

The notion of being apersonal subject is most intricate. It demands, as Hegel sees it,alogicallyc orrect understanding of reflective terms like "being", "subject" and "person",b yw hich we talk about different "moments" of ourselvesashuman beings sideways on. Moreover,inmost cases we must not identify the grammaticals ubjectt ow hich the words "I" refers with my individual bodyd urings ome parts of my lifetime. We rather should reconstruct,with Heidegger, Socratic and Christian mythological talk about our eternal soul as the result of our self-making by perfecting one'sown personhood,striving for true selfknowledge and conscience.