Paradoksi identiteta
Identity Paradoxes

Summary/Abstract: The article considers paradoxical nature of identity that emerges from: 1) the very concept of identity whose abstract generality unites various and even opposite features; 2) the processual nature of reality that is easier to express in the poetical metaphors or abstract principles than in unambiguous conceptual networks; 3) the oppose relationship between being and knowledge, mind and matter, subject and object, self and personality. Entangled in the labyrinth which evade efforts to be conceptually defined, the modern thinking of identity moves towards abandoning the idea of “self” on behalf of the “ego” and towards the misapprehension of identity as being identical. This corresponds to the “time of the lost spirit” stretched between the simultaneous need to find an identity and to give it up.

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