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Self is broadly defined as the essential qualities that make a person distinct from all others. The task in philosophy is defining what these qualities are, and there have been a number of different approaches. The "self" is the idea of a unified being which is the source of consciousness.Moreover, this self is the agent responsible for the thoughts and actions of an individual to which they are ascribed. It is a substance, which therefore endures through time; thus, the thoughts and actions at different moments of time may pertain to the same self. As the notion of subject, the "self" has been harshly criticized by Nietzsche at the end of the 19th century, on behalf of what Gilles Deleuze would call a "becoming-other".
Everybody has an obligation to himself, but there are times that we are facing difficulties in understanding these obligations. One of the reasons is how we understand exactly what `self' is.
One way to understand this selfhood is to conceive it as a personal role that one plays in the general drama of live. It is a role that includes responsibilities that are to be faced, decisions that are to be made, relationships and involvements that are to be lived and work that is to be performed.
In understanding our selfhood there are certain moral obligations that arise. If a person has a particular life to live then he has a basic responsibility toward that life. He has the obligation to see that life is `lived' to its fullest. He should play his role as well as he can and not neglect it.
In spirituality, and especially nondual, mystical and eastern meditative traditions, the human being is often conceived as being in the illusion of individual existence, and separateness from other aspects of creation. This "sense of doership" or sense of individual existence is that part which believes it is the human being, and believes it must fight for itself in the world, is ultimately unaware and unconscious of its own true nature. The ego is often associated with mind and the sense of time, which compulsively thinks in order to be assured of its future existence, rather than simply knowing its own self and the present.
The spiritual goal of many traditions involves the dissolving of the ego, allowing self-knowledge of one's own true nature to become experienced and enacted in the world. This is variously known as enlightenment, nirvana, presence, and the "here and now".
Everybody has an obligation to himself, but there are times that we are facing difficulties in understanding these obligations. One of the reasons is how we understand exactly what `self' is.
One way to understand this selfhood is to conceive it as a personal role that one plays in the general drama of live. It is a role that includes responsibilities that are to be faced, decisions that are to be made, relationships and involvements that are to be lived and work that is to be performed.
In understanding our selfhood there are certain moral obligations that arise. If a person has a particular life to live then he has a basic responsibility toward that life. He has the obligation to see that life is `lived' to its fullest. He should play his role as well as he can and not neglect it.
In spirituality, and especially nondual, mystical and eastern meditative traditions, the human being is often conceived as being in the illusion of individual existence, and separateness from other aspects of creation. This "sense of doership" or sense of individual existence is that part which believes it is the human being, and believes it must fight for itself in the world, is ultimately unaware and unconscious of its own true nature. The ego is often associated with mind and the sense of time, which compulsively thinks in order to be assured of its future existence, rather than simply knowing its own self and the present.
The spiritual goal of many traditions involves the dissolving of the ego, allowing self-knowledge of one's own true nature to become experienced and enacted in the world. This is variously known as enlightenment, nirvana, presence, and the "here and now".
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