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The article claims that the modern problem with subjectivity, lack of the self, has got its roots in Romanticism and a mistake made then. At the turn of 18th and 19th century authenticity was mistakenly identified with self-creation. This identification is connected with a change of understanding the conception of self-formation, Bildung. In order to show the change, the article presents neohumanistic understanding of Bildung (focused on J. W. Goethe and W. Humboldt) and romantic one (focused of F. Schlegel). By confronting these two approaches, the article presents the thesis that Bildung which leads to being a self, having an identity, cannot postulate independency from the world. However, although a man is responsible for the shape of his character, the content needed for the self-formation lies beyond himself.
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The article presents the problem of self-commitment as the foundation of one’s identity. It refers to the conceptions of Immanuel Kant and Christine Korsgaard to expose the role of norms in shaping one’s identity. However, it stresses the fact that the process of self- constitution as a result of self-commitment needs also a teleological frame. Self-commitment requires an aim to explain why it is worth undertaking it. Kant’s teleology can be found in his humanism while Korsgaard’s teleology in her identifications with norms. They both seem to understand humanity as a value and an end. Hence humanity appears as the sources of obligation and motivation. Understanding humanity as a value makes self-commitment not only possible but also meaningful.
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