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This 10 page paper discusses the concept of 'self'. Who am I? What are the sort of influences, moral, spiritual, familial that go into the devlelopment of 'self'. Examples given. Bibliography lists 0 sources.
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is the gradual movement from adolescence to adulthood and the creation, establishment of an individual personality. This personality does not happen overnight but rather is the sum total of influences
and experiences, innate tendencies, genetic predispositions, which occur throughout ones lifetime. In the search for self, the great who am I emerges. So, how does one determine who one is?
Hundreds of philosophers, authors, psychologists have pondered this question for centuries. In the end, the answers are as individual as ones fingerprint. Moral Identity: Does right and wrong
exist? Philosophers in all of mankinds ages have pondered this dilemma. In doing so the issue morality and ethics naturally follow. When one examines the moral influences in ones life,
the usual suspects come to the fore, such as family, friends, relatives. But in everyones life there are also other influences such as literature, art, events, experiences which occur outside
and regardless of the friends and family influences. In short, the student could say, given ones influences, morality is a duty; something one does because it is the right
thing to do, regardless of personal gain or reward. Therefore, duty is a sense of morality of a common idea shared by the majority of a society. So, regardless of
who one is, murder is deemed to be wrong. It is ones duty to find other means of solving ones problems than to simply murder the offending party. It is
this sense of duty that has been a guiding principle for the students life, then. This sense of moral obligation to others and to self could have been developed
in a multifaceted way. Religion, family influence, and ethnic reinforcement have paved the way for this type of mindset to take hold. Under certain parameters, then, the student has internalized
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