self-assertion

is, for the Japanese, immoral... self-sacrifice is the sensible course to take in life.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and selfsacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. Akira Kurosawa

Japan

is immoral... self-sacrifice is the sensible course to take in life.

is the existential program in which 'man posits his existence in a historical situation and indicates to himself how he is going to deal with the reality surrounding him and what use he will make of the possibilities that are open to him'.

Blumengerg is suggesting that the relation between 'self-preservation' and 'self-assertion' is the same as that between 'inevitable Progress' and the possible progress that he defends. It is certainly true that since the time of Hobbes, if not earlier, the self-assertion of individuals has been seen largely as their quest for survival adn 'secuirty,' which is a much narrower project than 'self-assertion' as Blumenberg defines it-- as the existential program' in which 'man posits his existence in a historical situation and indicates to himself how he is going to deal with the reality surrounding him and what use he will make of the possibilities that are open to him' (Blumenberg 1985: xxii)

is necessary to self-knowledge --- to know oneself, one should assert oneself.

To know oneself, One should assert oneself.

self assertion, n.Definitions

self assertion