6 Ways to Philosophically be Yourself.
I write from the abyss of my desk lovingly set up in my parents home. Thoughts on philosophy and what it would be like if a philosopher wanted you to be yourself. Rather difficult to figure out. What is the self? Where is the self? Is there really one self? Difficult questions abound. 1) Decide if you believe in a self The first thing you need philosophically, to believe in yourself, is a metaphysical foundation that calls for a belief in a self in the first place. Many philosophers don't believe in a singular self. They might believe in a radically constructed intersubjective manifestation of a narrative construction of self. But the narrative construction of self is integrated through many people's subjective understandings of you. Do you believe in a self that is separate from all of that? Does yourself exist regardless of what other people think of you or if they think of you? On a metaphysical level do you believe in individual selves which construct a whole? If you do ...