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Gonzalo asked:

What questions should we ask ourselves in order to know ourselves. How do we accomplish this
goal?

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Probably you can only really get to know yourself from experience. Of course you can have lots of
experiences without becoming self-aware, so you need to be self-reflective. Yet that being said,
man's capacity for self-deception is enormous and we don't really want to know unpleasant things
about ourselves. But to know ourselves properly, we have to try to face up to what we find
unacceptable — or settle for the belief that it's best not to know ourselves too well.

The best question to ask yourself is "why?"

Rachel Browne

According to Immanuel Kant in the Critique of Pure Reason,they are:

"What can I know?

What ought I to do?

What may I hope?"

That is, they are the core questions of epistemology, ethics and theology. The answer for him is to
study pure reason.

According to me, it is probably something like "How is it that I can come to be a knowing subject?"
The answer lies in a holistic investigation of growing up in a community, taking account of philosophy,
psychology, science, ethics, communications and many other fields.

Tim Sprod