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January 15, 2007
development of the self and understanding
The law for the development of the self in respect of understanding, so long as it remains true that the self is becoming itself, is that every increase in understanding corresponds to a greater degree of self-understanding, that the more it knows, the more it knows itself. When this does not happen, the more understanding increases, the more it becomes a kind of inhuman knowledge in the production of which man's self is squandered, much as men were squandered in the building of pyramids.
Kierkegaard - The Sickness Unto Death
Posted by amin at January 15, 2007 12:33 AM