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Self-knowledge (psychology)

Self-knowledge (psychology)
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understanding of a one's own needs and motives

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  1. This purely moral significance is the only one which right and wrong have for men as men, not as members of the State, and which consequently remains even when man is in a state of nature without any positive law. It constitutes the basis and the content of all that has on this account been named _natural law_, though it is better called moral law, for its validity does not extend to suffering, to the external…

    Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea

    States what Self-knowledge is; names Self-knowledge twice.

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  2. I believe that this is an entire mistake. I believe that the discovery of our own motives can only be made by the same process by which we discover other people's, namely, the process of observing our actions and inferring the desire which could prompt them. A desire is "conscious" when we have told ourselves that we have it. A hungry man may say to himself: "Oh, I do want my lunch." Then his desire is "conscious."…

    Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind

    States what Self-knowledge is; names Self-knowledge.

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  3. To know what God as spirit is—to apprehend this accurately and distinctly in thoughts—requires careful and thorough speculation. It includes, in its fore-front, the propositions: God is God only so far as he knows himself: his self-knowledge is, further, his self-consciousness in man, and man’s knowledge _of_ God, which proceeds to man’s self-knowledge in God.—See the profound elucidation of these propositions in…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

    States what Self-knowledge is; names Self-knowledge twice.

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