Start with the observation

We understand another person’s choice because we experience choosing, and recognize skill because we know a little of making.

Follow the reasoning

  1. The self provides a small scale by which qualities such as knowledge, will and care can be recognized.
  2. A scale is useful when it measures; it deceives when it declares itself the source of what it measures.
  3. The sentence ‘I made this’ remains dependent on materials, abilities, time and laws the speaker did not make.

A passage to hold beside it

“Conscience is conscious human nature.” 1

Read plainly

The self can be a window toward greater agency or a mirror that sees only itself.

Try observing this

Take one achievement you call yours and trace every borrowed condition that made it possible.

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