So why wouldn’t our understandings of ourselves shift and change over time, too? What we understand or why we understand it and how we understand it are all subject to change over time.Īnd, that is especially the case when it comes to how we understand ourselves or who we know ourselves to be.Īs dynamic and changing creatures, we are always shifting, evolving, learning, and growing. “Understandings” are, after all, never final. Oxford Dictionary defines self-knowledge as “the understanding of oneself and one’s own motives and character,” and the ( Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) defines it as the “knowledge of one’s own sensations, thoughts, beliefs, and other mental states”.īy those definitions, self-knowledge is technically a noun, or a “thing.” Literally, self-knowledge is “an understanding.” I think of it as a practice or journey through which we continually access, converse with, and strive to understand the truth of who we are, moment by moment.īut the textbook definition of self-knowledge is different. At least, that’s my own preferred interpretation of self-knowledge.
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