At 55, Drummond seems fairly self-conscious himself.
God, who originally is absorbed in a quiet longing, comes to himself by glimpsing in himself ideas through which he becomes conscious of himself.
When a human being is conscious of himself as human, he is conscious of himself not only as a thinking being, but also as a willing and a feeling being.
Each individual is conscious of himself, but nobody conscious of themselves collectively".
After "Pamela," the once obscure businessman became conscious of himself as a public figure.
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— KimKierkegaardashian (@KimKierkegaard) July 17 , 2012One is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair.
And each chapter, establishing the present moment — say, Leonard conscious of himself alone in a motel room — goes back to its own beginning and then forward again to the present.
It is in this sense that the individual becomes increasingly conscious of himself as a being that is at least potentially self-actualising and so self-fulfilling.
He has lived his existence from one moment to the next and without much awareness, but at his trial and while awaiting execution he becomes like Sisyphus, fully conscious of himself and his terrible fate.
At the end of the Ethics, Spinoza describes the "wise man" as the one who is "conscious of himself, and of God, and of things" (5p42s), the clear implication being that those who aren't wise fail to be conscious of themselves, God, or things, even if these things are present to mind through a mental representation.
