Seizing "I," "Thou," and the World Community

Reflections On Loving Self, Other, and Humanity for 2024 and Beyond (Vol. 3; Issue 50)

                                                                   I. The Self

When reflecting on new year’s advice, only Westerners begin with ideas for self-knowledge. Few scholars, even in Europe, gave much thought to the ego, the self, that sense of the “I,” before the 17th century. It was only then that the idea of human subjectivity—our unique expe…