Self-consciousness
Self- awareness is a term that is used in several disciplines. Is generally accepted that this term was first defined in philosophy. He also plays in sociology, psychology and history is always an important role. The term self-confidence has several levels of meaning. There is a self- consciousness of the individual, but also a collective group self-confidence.
On the one hand these terms is ( self-experience, English "self- awareness" ) brought about by the active inner thought processes recognizing one's own personality. The question: " Who or what I am" can be answered as a result of this matching process. Even a passive attribution, the attribution by other thinking beings the group leads to identify and define one's own person or personality, self-concept.
On the other hand describes " self-confidence " something that is called in English "self- confidence" or "self- assurance". "Confidence " means " trust, confidence "; " Assurance" means " certainty, security, trust ." A self-confident person feels these four things to such an extent that he goes to meet his future relatively optimistic, fearless, careless and unconcerned. This is the self-worth.
General self-esteem is defined as " the conviction of his ability, his value as a person, which expresses itself especially in self- assured demeanor ."
Colloquial term use
Self- awareness is called consciousness of itself
Colloquially, self-confidence is usually understood as a positive esteem of a person or a group in a social context value. Self- awareness is therefore often used synonymously with the term self-worth. A high self-worth, therefore, is considered a major self-confidence or arrogance.
Self-confidence is always set to a value horizon and - based on a process of environment - in appreciative or not appreciative manner: In the first case the self-confidence is determined by characteristics and capabilities, which correspond to currently generally accepted values in more or inferior manner; is self-confident, who feels recognized in respect of these. His self- awareness here means a vorkritisches usually social self -esteem, you have, or not, and this increased by appropriation of socially desirable characteristics (such as collective consciousness, self-determination and personal responsibility ) or skills, or in the case of failure can be reduced. As a self-confident particularly true true but also just the one who confronts himself as an individual of worth compliant group.
The affirmative (positive ) connotation in common usage of the term obscures the pure sense of the word: For a mode of self-consciousness in this sense, for example, would not only the pride but also the shame.
Self- consciousness in philosophy
According to Kant,
Self- consciousness arises through observation and reflection in terms of itself or different: one's own self, one's own personality. The self is considered the end of this same object and subject. Kant: "I am myself an object of intuition and thinking 'is a synthetic proposition a priori and the principle of transcendental philosophy. " ( Lectures on Metaphysics ).
" The synthetic sentence: that all different empirical consciousness must be connected in a self-consciousness, is the absolutely first and synthetic principle of our thinking at all. " ( Critique of Pure Reason; Section: Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding )
According to Hegel,
In one of his most important philosophical writings, the Phenomenology of Spirit, especially in the famous chapter " Self-employment and lack of independence of self-consciousness; Domination and servitude " leads from Hegel, that the self-confidence as a result of recognition by the other is emerging, and formed in response to a counter supernatant or transformed. Hegel describes the self- consciousness as the sum of the experience of the dialectic of autonomy and lack of independence, figuratively in the form of a conflict over recognition between master and servant.
Self-confidence in the science of history
A collective group self-confidence was " the philosophy of history" described by Hegel in his work. In this work he describes, among other things, the development of the collective self- consciousness of peoples and their civilization levels. Thus Hegel asserts that " the unhappy consciousness of the Roman Empire " was gemündet in Christianity, and that the collective self- consciousness of Christianity, " the precursor of reason" is.
Quotes
- " Only through the other learning and I know who I am. My self-confidence is a product of my encounter with the other and with the world. And only by the other I realize how I'm changing. "