This is your being, your core. The core cannot be changed. There is, however, a state of constant changes; changes that define the self. We invent ourselves and create who we are through our actions and activities. The Marxist self is located in the reactions between an individual and society. To Marx, the self is simply our human behavior, and it can become whatever we may create it to be through our creative activity. Marx believed that doing and becoming is achieved through creativity and inventing. There is no defined or essential nature to the Marxist self, or "soul". Its nature is created and shaped with the help of its environment and the influence of historical …show more content…
This belief was to help him understand the changes in the world. Form is what makes a person who they are. Matter makes up the form. The form does not change, however the configuration of matter does. Plato viewed the self as your very being. The essence of a being is its inner self. The best form of expression for this self is knowing; the realization of self. This realization can be liked to an "epiphany". This is the sublime moment of self-realization. This self is located in a mixture of body/soul dualism. The self is inside your very being, waiting for that moment of self-realization. To Plato, the self's essential nature is fixed, however, to get down to the basic self, history must be stripped away. The evil, to Plato, is ignorance. If primary expression of self is knowing, then being ignorant or not knowing is the worst state. Not being able to recognize and achieve that moment of self-realization is the evil for Plato. Many will say that Plato is too authoritarian, or order-oriented to provide the freedoms that would be provided from a democracy. This is true, but moreover, Plato simply forces us to confront the forces of self-control, whether it is as an individual or in a political