Maulana and Kierkegaard's Thoughts on the Self-Knowledge

When the human being starts to know himself and appreciate his abilities, it is asif he has a kind of responsibility to transcend himself form lower stages ofhumanity to higher ones. For Kierkegaard, this transcendence is possible by helpingof the human outstanding characteristic, namely the Anxiety. According to hisnotion of anxiety, any individual is always concerned and anxious about the qualityof his choices. This anxiety leads the individual to choose the best choice throughwhich he can represent his very own self as much as possible. For Maulana, thehuman being who has the thought faculty which differentiates him from otherlivings, not only can grasp knowledge about himself, but also about other things,just by applying this ability correctly. Consideration of both thinker's thoughts canhelp us to comprehend this ability. In this paper, we investigate human being inorder to recognize the spirit's stages and to know human being's outstandingcharacteristics in the two mentioned thinker's thoughts. Therefore, we investigatethe privacy and the examination for attainment more pure self.