What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to have consciousness? What does it mean to be a self in light of the concreteness of humanity and the spirit of consciousness? Soren Kierkegaard writes, “A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way, a human being is still not self.”1 Defining the meaning of the self requires a third party…
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