Having a self means being able think of myself under a certain profile that that is me: that is who I am, that is how I am. But if I raise the question as to who or how I am, there are three salient profiles in which I can cast myself, three selves with which we can identify. I can see myself just as an agent identified over time by the linkages between my experiences, my attitudes and my actions. I can see myself as the persona that I invite others to rely on and that, if sincere, I internalize. And I can see myself as the figure I cut in other people's eyes, whether or not I welcome that image. Such ambiguities help explain the complexity in philosophical discussion of the self as well as the conflict in everyday exhortations to be ourselves and know ourselves, yet also to forget ourselves and lose ourselves.

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我的三个自我

拥有自我意味着能够以某种形象来思考自己，那就是我：这就是我，我就是这样。但是，如果我提出关于我是谁或如何的问题，我可以在三个突出的侧面投射我自己，三个我们可以识别的自我。我可以把自己看作是一个代理人，随着时间的推移，我的经历、我的态度和我的行为之间的联系被识别出来。我可以将自己视为我邀请他人依赖的角色，如果真诚，我会内化。我可以把自己看作是我在别人眼中的形象，不管我是否欢迎这个形象。这种模棱两可有助于解释哲学讨论自我的复杂性，以及日常劝告中的冲突，即做我们自己，认识自己，同时忘记自己，迷失自己。