The line is from the following paragraph in Chapter 1 of SK’s Sickness Unto Death:

“The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation by which the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but is the relation’s relating itself to its own self. The self is not the relation but is the relation’s relating itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short, a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two. Considered in this way, man is not yet a self."

And as for what we were pointing to with that quote - I'm just mulling over it and finding it a fascinating experience - there seems to be so much insight locked in there as to what the "self" is, what I am and what conciousness is.

On Wednesday, 10 July 2024 at 06:37:05 am GMT+8, James Wiegel via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

I keep remembering "The self is a relation; that relates itself to itself; and in willing to be that relation; grounds itself transparently in the power that posits it."

And I remember the diagram with the lines and boxes and curvy arrows.

Where did that come from (which book or paper?). What was SK pointing to? What were we pointing to?

I am afeared that I am misusing it.

Thanks.

Jim Wiegel

“We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “ Stephen Hawking

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