Tag: Western Individualism
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Know Thyself – 9: The Community of Eternal Selves
Beyond Contract and Contingency: Toward a People of Being Modern society is built upon the belief that individuals are autonomous agents who form relationships: personal, social, or political; through choice, negotiation, and mutual benefit. From this standpoint, community becomes a fragile contract, always subject to revision, dependent on will, agreement, and utility. But this vision…
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The Unfolding of Identity – Article 2: The Principle of Identity and the Necessity of Being
The fragmentation of identity, examined in the first article, is not an arbitrary historical accident but the necessary unfolding of contradictions inherent in partial perspectives. If identity, in its true form, is not something contingent and constructed but eternal and indestructible, then the contradictions of relativism and self-creation must ultimately give way to the recognition…
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It Is What It Is 