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https://medium.com/@thevlone88/the-terrible-paradox-of-self-awareness-according-to-fernando-pessoa-5f5d109c06d1
Fernando Pessoa, a 20th-century writer, and his Masterwork, The Book of Disquiet, have a fascinating origin story that sounds like a work of fiction. ... The Terrible Paradox of Self-Awareness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRV7LItpT6g
Explore the intriguing world of self-awareness with "5 Terrible Paradoxes of Self-Awareness" by Fernando Pessoa. Delve into the complexities of understanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfgqCU9H9TU
Dive into the fascinating world of self-awareness as we explore the enigmatic perspective of renowned Portuguese writer, Fernando Pessoa. In this thought-pro

https://lithub.com/the-heteronymous-identities-of-fernando-pessoa/
July 22, 2021. When the ever elusive Fernando Pessoa died in Lisbon, in the fall of 1935, few people in Portugal realized what a great writer they had lost. None of them had any idea what the world was going to gain: one of the richest and strangest bodies of literature produced in the twentieth century. Although Pessoa lived to write and

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/books/review-pessoa-biography-richard-zenith.html
That Pessoa's name is Portuguese for "person" must have given him perverse satisfaction, he who wrote the word "me" in quotation marks. "I'm beginning to know myself. I don't exist

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/04/fernando-pessoas-disappearing-act
Pessoa's achievement, deliberate or inadvertent, is to show how the roots of a certain kind of misery lie in solipsism—the belief that nothing outside the self really matters, so that the mind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Portuguese: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; 13 June 1888 - 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher, and philosopher.He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.He also wrote in and translated from English and French.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/153999/thinking-is-a-sickness-of-the-eyes
Thinking Is a Sickness of the Eyes. Alberto Caeiro, Fernando Pessoa's imaginary shepherd-poet, lived a supposedly simple life in the country. He was more complicated than he seems. Art by Lars Leetaru. I. A Wraith's Biography. In a poem dated November 8, 1915, the Portuguese poet Alberto Caeiro wrote.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163610/impossible-life-fernando-pessoa-richard-zenith-biography
Pessoa's great creation, the heteronyms, were "a drama divided into people, instead of into acts," he wrote in a 1928 autobiographical note. Zenith sets out to present a "cinematographic

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-deception/
Virtually every aspect of self-deception, including its definition and paradigmatic cases, is a matter of controversy among philosophers. Minimally, self-deception involves a person who (a) as a consequence of some motivation or emotion, seems to acquire and maintain some false belief despite evidence to the contrary and (b) who may display behavior suggesting some awareness of the truth.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-consciousness-phenomenological/
Primarily, the body attains self-awareness in action (or in our dispositions to action, or in our action possibilities) when it relates to something, uses something, or moves through the world. Bodily self-awareness, like self-consciousness more generally, has limitations. I am never fully aware of everything that is going on with my body.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-consciousness/
First published Thu Jul 13, 2017; substantive revision Tue May 12, 2020. Human beings are conscious not only of the world around them but also of themselves: their activities, their bodies, and their mental lives. They are, that is, self-conscious (or, equivalently, self-aware). Self-consciousness can be understood as an awareness of oneself.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fernando-Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa (born June 13, 1888, Lisbon, Port.—died Nov. 30, 1935, Lisbon) was one of the greatest Portuguese poets, whose Modernist work gave Portuguese literature European significance.. From the age of seven Pessoa lived in Durban, S.Af., where his stepfather was Portuguese consul.He became a fluent reader and writer of English. With the hope of becoming a great poet in that language

https://academic.oup.com/book/32053
Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves draws together the strands of this philosophy and rearticulates it in a way that does justice to Pessoa's breathtaking originality. In applying the new theory to the analysis of some of the trickiest and most puzzling problems about the self to have appeared in the global history of philosophy, in thinkers

https://poets.org/poet/fernando-pessoa
Fernando Pessoa. Fernando António Nogueira Pessôa was born on June 13, 1888, in Lisbon, Portugal. When he was barely five years old, his father died. His mother remarried a year and a half later to the Portuguese consul in Durban, South Africa. Pessoa attended an English school in Durban, where he lived with his family until the age of seventeen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/books/review/fernando-pessoa-biography-richard-zenith.html
The emergence of Fernando Pessoa as one of the world's great modern writers, one worthy of Richard Zenith's monumental new biography, has been nearly a century in the making. When Pessoa died

https://academic.oup.com/book/32053/chapter/267858052
In this chapter I explore the relationship between Fernando Pessoa and Buddhism. I first introduce the brilliant French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-43), a contemporary of Pessoa but someone of whom he certainly had never heard. One way to read her remarks is as directed against the positional use of 'I', against the deployment in

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11097-020-09699-7
The article explores the relation between personal identity and life-changing decisions such as the decision for a certain career or the decision to become a parent. According to L.A. Paul (Paul 2014), decisions of this kind involve "transformative experiences", to the effect that - at the time we make a choice - we simply don't know what it is like for us to experience the future

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-017-0049-5
Being an epistemic vice, overconfidence is an obstacle to any inquiry, and in particular to self-inquiry. But overconfidence is not just any epistemic vice, either. It is a stealthy epistemic vice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(psychology)
Persona (psychology) The persona, for Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, is the social face the individual presented to the world—"a kind of mask, designed on the one hand to make a definite impression upon others, and on the other to conceal the true nature of the individual." [1]

https://pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/introductiontophilosophy/chapter/the-mind-body-problem/
The mind-body problem is best thought of not as a single problem but as a set of problems that attach to different views of the mind. For physicalists, the mind-body problem is the problem of explaining how conscious experience can be nothing other than a brain activity—what has been called " the hard problem .".

https://revelpreview.pearson.com/epubs/pearson_chaffee/OPS/xhtml/ch03_sec_05.xhtml
For Locke, the essence of the self is its conscious awareness of itself as a thinking, reasoning, reflecting identity. But this in no way means that this self is necessarily embedded in a single substance or soul—it might very well take up residence in any number of substances or souls. In Locke's mind, conscious awareness and memory of