One attains self-consciousness only when one can conceive of oneself as oneself, and has the linguistic ability to use the first-person pronoun to refer to oneself (Baker 2000, 68; cf. Lowe 2000, 264).
I'm not sure I agree with that, but I do think that it is easier to conceive of oneself as uncorrupted and good in an Edenic setting.
Of course, to conceive of oneself as the herald and instrument of the transformation of death and aging requires a supreme self-confidence, and de Grey is the most unabashedly self-confident of men.
Without this perspective, she argues, a being cannot refer to itself using first-person pronouns, for this ability requires that one be able to conceive of oneself both as the subject of mental events and as the object that embodies the subject of those events.
For instance, conceiving of oneself as a citizen, one may desire to bear one's fair share of society's burdens.
But if we conceive of the good of individuals as including items such as being respected as an independent agent, having a right to make decisions for oneself, or having one's autonomy not infringed, then the issue of whether the agent is better off after being paternalised is partly a normative matter.
It is from this perspective that "one thinks of oneself as an individual facing a world, as a subject distinct from everything else"; it is what enables us "to conceive of one's body and mental states as one's own" (ibid.: 60, 4).
In order to account for how we are to conceive of this abstract sense of self, Habermas incorporates two further significant features into his account of autonomy, by appealing first to Kierkegaarde's concept of 'being able to be oneself', and second to Arendt's concept of natality.
Old English þencan "imagine, conceive in the mind; consider, meditate, remember; intend, wish, desire" (past tense þohte, past participle geþoht), probably originally "cause to appear to oneself," from Proto-Germanic *thankjan (cognates: Old Frisian thinka, Old Saxon thenkian, Old High German denchen, German denken, Old Norse þekkja, Gothic þagkjan).
Home ovulation test devices can help build awareness and knowledge of oneself during attempts to conceive as well as help to empower and engage women to take control of their own fertility (Brown et al., 1987; Blackwell et al., 2003).
Creating him required on Tolstoy's part qualities other than introspection: attentiveness to the peculiarities of social life, the ability to conceive the thinking of people morally and psychologically unlike oneself, and fairmindedness.
