Γνϖθι σαυτον: know yourself

In a Italian romance The son of dream is translated the very famous advise or order on doors of temple in Delphi, that we know for use of Socrates, the advice, because Socrates never has ordered to pupils, because he considered herself a pupil and no certainly a master; about this words Karl Popper(1902-1994) has written that these words everybody mentions, but nobody knows what is meaningful; the meaningful is know your borderlines; it is true certainly but very partial! In this romance is other partial true, because Alexander the Magnus explains this words: “Known yourself is hardest task, because it involved directly our rationality, but also our fears, our passions”; certainly it is true, and here Alexander is right, but the explication is partial although has expressed from the Magnus, this is the Great. The judge of Popper an inquiry in herself, and acknowledge of owner limits is alone partial version of judge of Alexander, because acknowledge herself involves also acknowledge of owner limits, thence Popper is partial, why? Simple because these thesis are right but the authors didn’t consider that the unconscious reactions of personality, that is our hidden side, in fact in the mirror we when confess something to ourselves we are living the objectual rapport, this is the rapport with ourselves, but also to these occasion, when we are completely alone, we have difficult to confess something that isn’t right, also it is to confess to ourselves; it is human behavior and human reaction, because this something isn’t right to ourselves must not exist, it isn’t never is occurred, because it would be an admission of weakness, that we are living during that moment, because incapacity for confess even to ourselves is lank of courage, hence weakness, but it is certainly better admit our weakness than something of isn’t right, because this last is more serious; but although we didn’t confess it in the mirror we have other danger, the night, the dream, that transforms the reality and from unconscious something emerges always, though it is changed from oneiric dynamic, but always it begin from reality, that though modified the root is same real; known ourselves is difficult, rightly from Alexander’s point of view, and it is very difficult because the major obstacle to acknowledge of ourselves are we; in fact we want know in everybody because they are other, this is different from us, they are different persons, and therefore they aren’t us.

Alessandro Lusana