As we ran toward the wood, we heard, I heard -- it is impossible to distinguish now between what one experienced oneself and what was told afterward -- that there were 300 charred bodies lying in the wood, making it not a good place to seek shelter.
Well, to answer that first and easiest question, it is entirely possible to feel nostalgia for homelands, and for periods, which one has never experienced oneself.
The Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking writes that diagnoses can become "a way to be a person, to experience oneself, to live in society".
More categorical interest-based approaches ground moral status on the capacity to experience oneself as temporally-extended beings whose lives can go better or worse (Singer 1993; Tooley 1983) or to value one's own existence (Harris 1985; Newson 2007).
In particular, it has been observed that brain stimulation may have an impact on the psychological continuity of the person, i.e. the crucial requirement of personal identity consisting in experiencing oneself as persisting through time as the same person (Klaming and Haselager 2013).
As Jacob knows, facing the divinity of both the other and one's self is not without its risks -- among them, burnout from the intensity of this engagement, and the soul-killing arrogance of experiencing oneself as greater than someone else, especially one's kindred.
In fact, a growing body of evidence suggests that the capacity to experience oneself as the agent of one's own actions (agency) might concur, along with the sense of body-ownership, with self-identification in general [3].
The affective component of the self-concept is self-esteem, which has been described as ' the disposition to experience oneself as competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and as worthy of happiness.'[ 14].
One must have experienced pain oneself in order to know pain".
This suggests that the merging between emotions and feelings experienced by oneself and those perceived in other individuals may be a key ingredient of social understanding, and it may play a major role in promoting empathy, prosocial behaviours, and moral norms [1], [3].
The suffering of those who take their own lives seems to me to be unimaginable to some of us – a terrifying and heartbreaking thought, how much worse their psychic pain must have been than anything one has oneself experienced.
