With self-consciousness comes a demand for philosophical justification of the state-building process, but that process has been going on in obedience to elemental instinct.
True religious experience involves more than the feeling of absolute dependence, even when united with a mode of sensible self-consciousness.
For them, political self-consciousness was a strategic advantage.
This bar seems to halt all forward movement: it stands suspended, as if in a moment of self-consciousness or introspection.
The higher consciousness can only exist insofar as it is related to the antithesis of the sensible self-consciousness between self and world.
In the second grade of consciousness there is self-consciousness, and hence a grasp of the antithesis between the self and the world.
It is ironic that although we have difficulty giving satisfactory answers to these questions, we can create self-consciousness with relative ease.
One might say that in having children we participate in the mystery of the creation of self-consciousness.
