>>133180191. Humans are the most social creatures
2. Awareness of the existence of other individuals brings hyperawareness of one's own individuality
3. An idea is defined by what it is just as much as what it is not i.e. "I exist because I exist as myself and not this other person"
4. The trend of increasing individuation in human society can be observed throughout history
5. The most striking feature of prehistoric cave art is the lack of individuation, humans are depicted as small and weak next to large and powerful depictions of animals.
6. Most significantly humans in cave art do not have faces. This is revealing of a very primitive thought structure. Today we feel a person's face contains their individuality, hence the adage "the eyes are the window to the soul"
7. The first major religions are polytheistic, with now anthropomorphized pantheons central to the mythos of Egypt and Mesopotamia. But man is still an insect compared to the gods as evidenced in Greek drama
8. The advent of monotheism brings man opposite to a single god, he no longer has need of a multitude of divine personalities, but sees himself as a reflection of a single all-encompassing personality
9. Augustine is a beggar grovelling before God, but Aquinas meets him on much higher ground; in the space between these thinkers man's position relative to God has grown significantly
10. In the modern age man himself becomes the all-encompassing personality, God is dispensed with and man commands time and space itself
11. Consciousness is the idea "I am because I am"
