If philosophy can be summed up as one thing, I think it’s this: self-knowledge. This is usually how Plato defined it. The search for self-knowledge, seeking self-knowledge, developing it, and using it, etc. But what does this mean? To what end is this done? Why is self-knowledge important, and what is it?
reading this i thought of the theme in Dexter about his “dark passenger,” which could be an illustration of either intense self-knowledge (knowing one has a dark interior), or a lack of self-knowledge such that one’s interior is misinterpreted. i didn’t watch the last season, but i’d hoped they might take the narrative to a place of “misinterpretation” of Dexter’s self, b/c i think that’d be interesting.
either way, tho, not-knowing the difference btwn what’s “essentially human” and what’s “essentially me” can definitely lead to one into darkness.
reading this i thought of the theme in Dexter about his “dark passenger,” which could be an illustration of either intense self-knowledge (knowing one has a dark interior), or a lack of self-knowledge such that one’s interior is misinterpreted. i didn’t watch the last season, but i’d hoped they might take the narrative to a place of “misinterpretation” of Dexter’s self, b/c i think that’d be interesting.
either way, tho, not-knowing the difference btwn what’s “essentially human” and what’s “essentially me” can definitely lead to one into darkness.