PHIL 001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Concretion, Whta
5 Jan 2021
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Aware of a self and its eternal constituent yet. A conscious defiance the act of relating itself to its infinite self yet. Here the self strives by itself to be master of itself or to create itself, to make his self into the self he wants to be, to determine what he will have in his concrete self. God lets you* relate yourself to yourself. (ebw 80) To eradicate despair over oneself: in relating itself to itself and in willing to be itself, the self rests transparently in the power that established it. (sud 14) Grounded transparently in the power that posited it (ebw 79) Because a human self is a relation that relates itself to itself, and this relation/relating is constituted by a power beyond it, the human self cannot. So in its relating itself to itself, the human self must.
