The question of self-awareness in philosophical discourse western acquired importance in terms of being a key factor in how to identify many of the problems of philosophy, The debate philosophical about the nature and specificity of self-awareness indicates the importance of this issue which took an important place and is still in the circles of philosophical thought-west, as a self-awareness the foundation stone problematic in the dialectic of the complex relationship between consciousness and the world, and the nature of that relationship from the self that has become the ultimate source of truth and knowledge in the cultural project in the era of Western modernism and early postmodernism.
This research aims to characterize how the formation of self-awareness and tracking of historical transformations in the two models and through the important philosophical formed a radical shift in how to present the concept of self-awareness.
The period is the period of the first historical era of modernity, which represented the first shape to the concept of self-awareness and through the most prominent philosophers (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz to, Kant, Hegel).
The other is the historical period after the period of early modernism and through the most prominent philosophers (Nietzsche, Bergson, Heidegger, Sartre, Merloponte) *, and during these periods, we will determine the conditions and requirements that called for philosophers to understand the self-consciousness differently, in those periods |