"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."
2007-03-21 09:47:03 · 10 answers · asked by gothicducks 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Well, we must break this quote down mathemematically.
Let's call self x. And x does not equal something ready-made (let's call it y), so it must equal something in continuous formation (lets call that Jeff). And this must be done because of choice of action (let's call that Po), and obviously x equals Po. So, mathematically, this looks like..
x≠y, therefore
x=Jeff because
x=Po
And if we calculate in the factor of stupidity, we find out three things.
1. You are not a robot. (A robot is something ready made, and since x≠y, you are not a robot)
2. If you don't find a way to become immortal, you will die
3. Continuous formation and choice of action are the same thing
I will take my 500 dollars now.
2007-03-21 09:50:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This quote, to me is saying that the person you are is always changing- its not something that is cookie cutter or something that will stay the same. Every experience changes who you are depending on your choices.
2007-03-21 16:59:15 · answer #2 · answered by happy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to Carl Rogers and Rogerian psychotherapy, the quote is wrong.
Our personalities are shaped by the reactions we read in other to ourselves. Others are the mirror in which we see ourselves and according to whose reactions, as we interpret them, we recieve our impressions of ourselves. These impressions become out personalities. So we must learn to see ourselves as we see ourselves without the reflection of other judgments. Or something like that.
Anyway, it sounds like something out of the Dept. of Phylosophy at the University of Chicago earlier in the last century..
2007-03-21 17:00:10 · answer #3 · answered by john s 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i feel this quote is trying to say that a person is not ever complete, because we are only products of our environment, and products of the people around us. our minds and ideas are always changing
2007-03-21 20:36:38 · answer #4 · answered by candi b 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not born with your personality, it develops because of life's actions.
2007-03-21 16:50:59 · answer #5 · answered by Joy M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your morals, achievements, and your person are not just given to you. You have to continue to choose to follow them and revise them constantly.
2007-03-21 19:49:20 · answer #6 · answered by sheep_are_taking_over 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to me it pretty much says time changes you. it explains growth, both physical and mental. you are not who were when you were 5. as you grow, your values, your mentality, your attitudes, your self changes, adapts, matures. we are forever changing.
2007-03-21 16:57:37 · answer #7 · answered by jack_skellington49 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are always changing and the changing you is still you.
2007-03-21 16:56:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means you should be doing your own hw...
but... to me, it mean: you evolve into the person you will later become.
2007-03-21 16:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
everything we do we learn from and it creates who we are from that moment of experience.
2007-03-21 17:02:58 · answer #10 · answered by kattz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋