Argument
Self-awareness
Overview
In the philosophy of self, self-awareness is the awareness and reflection of one's own personality or individuality, including traits, feelings, and behaviors. It is not to be confused with consciousness in the sense of qualia. While consciousness is being aware of one's body and environment, self-awareness is the recognition of that consciousness. Self-awareness is how an individual experiences and understands their own character, feelings, motives, and desires. Because the term is used in both philosophical and psychological contexts, researchers distinguish between different forms of self-awareness, ranging from awareness of consciousness itself to awareness of oneself within social situations.
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Again, the imaginative power is called by this name--imagination--if the conjecturing (or surmising) power alone use it: and if the speaking (rational) power use it, it is called the thinking (cogitative) power. The heart is the source (spring) of all these powers (faculties), in Aristotle’s opinion; yet the sway over them is in different organs (instruments).
Avicenna, A Compendium on the Soul
States what Self-awareness is; the author is tied to Self-awareness in the knowledge graph.
to know how it differs from other things; which is to know its essence and nature. Reply Obj. 1: The mind knows itself by means of itself, because at length it acquires knowledge of itself, though led thereto by its own act: because it is itself that it knows, since it loves itself, as he says in the same passage. For a thing can be called self-evident in two ways, either because we can know it by nothing else…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Self-awareness is.
The awarenesses we have considered so far have all been awarenesses of particular existents, and might all in a large sense be called sense-data. For, from the point of view of theory of knowledge, introspective knowledge is exactly on a level with knowledge derived from sight or hearing. But, in addition to awareness of the above kind of objects, which may be called awareness of _particulars_; we have also (though…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
States what Self-awareness is.
Philosophers who discussed Self-awareness
- Avicenna
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Sage (philosophy)
- The Philosophy of Freedom
- James Frederick Ferrier
- Manfred Frank
Related ideas
- Belief
- Artificial intelligence
- Metacognition
- Feeling
- Sentience
- Personality
- Desire
- Philosophy of self
- Aphasia
- Proprioception
- Qualia
- Motivation
- Pope Paul VI
- Science fiction
- Self-consciousness
- Experience
- Working memory
- New Scientist
- Reason
- Nature (journal)
- Essentialism
- Intelligence
- Consciousness
- Jean Piaget
Place in the tradition
Part of Consciousness.