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Importance of self

e able to think critically and distinguish ideas from each other. Yet these ideas are not always stable and well-understood. As Descartes proposes the self is filled with images that might appear true yet in reality are nothing but a false images created by our senses. The self has the ability to understand the world outside and decide for itself which images are true and which are false. Before making a decision the self or I uses reason to establish the possible outcome and see if it will benefit the self. We do everything to satisfy the self. Our mind is designed especially to fulfill the wishes, sometimes unnecessary, to make ourselves feel better. Intellingece we posses, helps us find a right place for the self in this world. The decisions we make based on our desires to please the self are not always beneficial and ethical. Many times we place certain unimportant values above other more helpful and correct ones in order to fulfill temporary desires. The self is satisfied for a short period of time until the conscience takes over and analyzes the situation again. Every choice taken has a consequences on ourselves; either a good or bad. Our understanding of world through our senses could be very deceiving. Our senses deceive our self and impose on us certain values and beliefs which otherwise would not come up. The urges to do something unethical are created by nothing else but our senses. Therefore in order to act accordingly to ethics we have to rely mostly on our reason not the sense. God a perfect, infinite, supreme being who created us in his image gave us free will, an ability to make choices. Our will is infinite, in that it is able to assert, deny or withhold judgment from given idea of the understanding. Our understanding has its limitations. We are unable to distanguish a lot of times bad from good. Having the choice to decide what is the best for the self, many take the wrong path in their lives basing...

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