My self-definition is understood as an answer to the question Who I am. And this question finds its original sense in the interchange of speakers. I define who I am by defining where I speak from, in the family tree, in the social space, in the geography of social statuses and functions, in my intimate relations to the ones I love, and also crucially in the space of moral and spiritual orientation within which my most important defining relations are lived out.How has my way of relating demonstrated where I stand, where I'm coming from?
Charles Taylor. Sources of The Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. (pg 35)
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