JUST PHILOSOPHISING - ON 'KNOWING OURSELVES'; MAKING THE JOURNEY OF! PART 4.

Where should be or is the best place from which to embark on what could, indeed, be the fantastic voyage or journey of knowing yourself?

Of course, the only real model of knowing myself, which I have, is that of knowing me. 'Me', or 'I', of course, is largely a 'personalise' or internalise version of the 'we', the 'us', the 'them', and the 'other.'

Put more succinctly, the 'them' and the 'other', if we perceive of them as society, the societies into which I/you were born and nurtured.  

It is the 'them', my parental society, which has first given meaning to my life and how I should live it. 

When you and I were born, we were not born with the power of ergosumness. The power to think, and to reason. 

The power to speak our 'mother tongue', without having to learn how to do so. Yes, to a large extent, the newly born baby or human, is really like a blank slate, tabula rasa. 

A conscious 'vessel' which, dependent on the integrity and health of our developing individual physical and mental capacity, is eager to learn and achieve.

Each of us humans does help to form the whole, to give meaning to the bigger picture, but none of us can have any real significance, separated or isolated from the whole. 

Although the whole is quite viable and significant, without any particular individual or individuals.

And so it is, in my opinion, that, the starting point of embarking on the quest of 'knowing oneself', is to first know your own physical body, and what it is capable of doing and is not able to do. 

To know and understand what we can do, to overcome any deficiencies in our physical attributes, in order to increase our bodily strength.

To be continued!