Self-awareness lifts the I above itself while it remains itself

Evidence

The “I” not only confronts itself, making itself as knower the object of its own knowing; but it even judges itself as a third party, esteems or deprecates itself, and so is put above itself. It moves beyond itself constantly, and yet remains in itself, since its subject and object are here identical. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 814

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Many diverse stimulations, not few, make the ego self-aware — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 705; Ego emerges as the constant amid rapid psychic alternation — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 703; Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787 (+16 more)

Related

• Ego emerges as the constant amid rapid psychic alternation (similarity 0.87)
• Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness (similarity 0.83)
• Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them (similarity 0.81)
• Many diverse stimulations, not few, make the ego self-aware (similarity 0.81)
• The individual self is a distinctive object of knowledge. (similarity 0.79)
• Self-certainty requires recognition from the other (similarity 0.79)
• Social mechanisms intensify only when applied reflexively to themselves (similarity 0.78)
• Human worth depends on recognition by another person (similarity 0.78)
• The self discovers itself only in situation and must alone sustain all values (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Social mechanisms intensify only when applied reflexively to themselves #expands (0.72)
• Self-consciousness depends on being recognized by another consciousness #expands (0.60)
• Mutual recognition is the sole escape from solipsistic self-enclosure #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 782
• Self-certainty requires recognition from the other #corroborates (0.50)