"Know thyself," is the Socratic injunction. Socrates believed that the best way to know either the reality or the world or the others is to know one's own self. In a way, it could be considered a distant corollary of the ancient indian notions such as "ahm bramha asmi" and/or " tat twam asi."
Why the need to know either the world or the self? In fact, it could be argued that there is an urgent need of this kind of self awareness because the twenty first century is marked by
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