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• Title:
  On the Genealogy of the Modern Experience of Consciousness. Christian Self-Examination
• Creator:
  Wawrzyniak, Szymon
• Contributor:
  independent researcher;
  szymon.wawrzyniak@yahoo.com
• Description:
  The article aims to investigate the modern self-experience of an individual from the point of view of the historical conditions that make this experience possible. This undertaking will be supported by the turn to a theory and practice of self-examination as it appears in early Christianity. It is widely recognized that there is a connection between modernity and subjectivity. One of the areas where it is reflected is philosophy. By founding the paradigm of modern philosophy, Descartes finds in his turn to himself a certain basis of cognition and a space where forward progress in the process of building a new system of knowledge may take effect. For Descartes consciousness is, however, a means, not an end. This is one of the reasons why it is not "questioned" sufficiently. Among many questions that were not addressed at all for a long time, one should mention, how the experience on which Descartes bases his reasoning became possible. In the history preceding the Cartesian turn inward, we can identify many interesting moments - which can be found with great confirmation in early Christianity - that play a significant role in the constitution of the experience that will become so important for modernity.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
• Date:
  2022.06.07;
  2022.05.09
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Hybris;4;
  55
• Subject:
  subjectivation;
  self;
  self-examination;
  culture;
  history;
  modernity;
  subiektywizacja;
  jaźń;
  rachunek sumienia;
  kultura;
  historia;
  nowożytność
• Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/42083 ;
  1689-4286;
  10.18778/1689-4286.55.01
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image