Definition of "self-understanding" []

• Self-knowledge. (noun)

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• "I suppose one might dismiss this self-understanding, along with the rest of starkness, as some sort of religious delusion, utterly divorced from reality."
• "The progress we have made in social regards: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of movement, freedom of employment, freedom of communication, freedom of and from marriage, gender equality, sexual freedom, etc ... are indispensable means towards self-understanding."
• "It is a fundamental ethical choice of the human agent, be s/he an individual, a single person, or a collectivity, up to and including the human global population, a collectivity that has not yet achieved its potential in terms of organization, empowerment, and self-understanding."