- Does consistancy cause change?
- Does change cause stability?
- How much are other people a part of my identity?
- How much do I share an identity of a Supreme Being?
- How much does my identity change from time to time?
- How much does my identity change from place to place?
- How much do I want to change?
Existentialists mention a, "Choosing Self", choosing, acting, or living to become just who we are. The existentialist Martin Heidegger refers to this process with the words, "being in the world". Of course we can't choose, or whatever we want, for, we are certainly limited at least by our body and environment. This is a fact and is called by this philosopher, "facticity". But, at any present moment in time we can, by our facticity, choose to be self creating beings. We are not an object solely shaped by a determining past. Instead, we are free and choose our future being. The past may inform us about our facticity, but does not determine us or what we become. Life is always moving forward and each person is past of the ever - changing flow forward. So, our identity, what we are, is always in a state of forward movement ans results from our choices and what we do in the present, and not so determined by our past as commonly taught.
Now, we come to an application.
We will talk about that in the following week.
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