Outline of self

Short description: Overview of and topical guide to self

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the human self:

Self - individuality, from one's own perspective. To each person, self is that person. Oneself can be a subject of philosophy, psychology and developmental psychology; religion and spirituality, social science and neuroscience.

## Contents

* 1 In general
* 2 Components of self
* 2.1 Personal identity
* 2.2 Personality
* 2.2.1 Personality traits
* 2.2.1.1 Big Five personality traits
* 2.2.1.2 Virtues
* 2.2.1.3 Vices
* 2.2.1.4 Harmful traits and practices
* 3 Personal experience
* 3.1 Personal life
* 3.1.1 Stages of life
* 3.1.2 Major life events
* 3.2 Self-actualization
* 3.2.1 Maturity
* 3.2.2 Self-preservation and self-maintenance
* 4 Individual rights
* 5 Other personal concepts
* 6 See also

## In general

* Human
* Human condition
* Individuality (selfhood) - state or quality of being an individual; particularly of being a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs or goals, rights and responsibilities. The exact definition of an individual is important in the fields of biology, law, and philosophy.
* Person - being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
* Personhood - status of being a person. Defining personhood is a controversial topic in philosophy and law and is closely tied with legal and political concepts of citizenship, equality, and liberty. According to law, only a natural person or legal personality has rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities, and legal liability.
* Philosophy of self
* Psychology of self
* Religious views on the self

## Components of self

* Body
* Brain / Mind / Intelligence
* Character
* Experience
* Sentience
* Gender
* Personal identity (see below)
* Personality (see below)
* Self-concept
* Self-awareness
* Self-consciousness
* Self-control
* Self-esteem
* Self-guilt
* Self-knowledge
* Self-perception
* Self-realization
* Self-worth
* Skill
* Wisdom

### Personal identity

Personal identity

* Identity
* Identity (social science)
* Identity formation
* Cultural identity
* Moral identity
* Social identity
* Open individualism
* Personally identifiable information
* Self-identity
* Self-image
* Self-schema
* Vertiginous question

### Personality

Further information: Social:Personality psychology

Personality

#### Personality traits

Personality trait

##### Big Five personality traits

Big Five personality traits

* Extraversion and introversion
* Agreeableness
* Conscientiousness
* Neuroticism / Emotional stability
* Openness to experience

##### Virtues

Virtue - characteristic of a person which supports individual moral excellence and collective well-being. Such characteristics are valued as a principle and recognized as a good way to be. This list is necessarily incomplete.

* Virtues of self-control
* Ambition – self-control regarding one's goals
* Philosophy:Ataraxia - Concept in Stoic philosophy
* Philosophy:Brahmacharya - Motivated abstinence from worldly pleasures
* Philosophy:Chastity - Ethic concept of temperance related to sexuality
* Philosophy:Contentment - Emotional state
* Continence – self-control regarding unwise inclinations
* Philosophy:Diligence - Carefulness and persistent effort or work
* Philosophy:Discipline - The ability to control oneself to do what has to be done when it is unpleasant to do so
* Philosophy:Equanimity - State of psychological stability and composure
* Forbearance or Philosophy:Patience - Ability to endure difficult circumstances
* Good temper
* Philosophy:Kshama - Sanskrit term meaning patience or forgiveness
* Philosophy:Kshanti
* Philosophy:Moderation
* Philosophy:Prudence - Ability of a person to regulate themselves with the use of reason
* Temperance - Cardinal virtue of control over excess
* Thrift or Philosophy:Frugality - Being frugal in the consumption of consumable resources
* Virtues of self-efficacy
* Philosophy:Adhiṭṭhāna - Resolute determination, in Buddhism
* Social:Aptitude - Ability; competence to do a certain kind of work at a certain level
* Social:Assertiveness - Capacity of being self-assured without being aggressive to defend a point of view
* Philosophy:Boldness - Vigour and valour in action
* Philosophy:Confidence - State of trusting that a belief or course of action is correct
* Social:Courage - Ability to deal with fear
* Philosophy:Creativity - Human capacity, ability or talent to create something that is both novel and useful.
* Philosophy:Determination - Positive emotional feeling
* Philosophy:Dhrti - Yama (ethical rule) in Hinduism
* Drive
* Philosophy:Ganbaru
* Philosophy:Liberty - Creation and experience of societal freedom
* Perseverance – ability to work steadily despite setbacks or difficulties
* Social:Preparedness
* Finance:Prosperity - Concept of economies regarding wealth, health, happiness, community and spirit
* Resilience - Ability to mentally or emotionally cope with a crisis or to return to pre-crisis status quickly
* Philosophy:Self-cultivation - Development of one's virtues
* Medicine:Self-directedness
* Philosophy:Self-help - Self-guided improvement
* Tenacity
* Philosophy:Vīrya
* Philosophy:Vitality - Capacity to live, grow, or develop
* Virtues of regard and respect
* Social:Accountability - Concept of responsibility in ethics, governance and decision-making
* Philosophy:Asteya
* Authenticity - Concept in existential psychology and philosophy
* Philosophy:Empathy - Capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing
* Fair-mindedness - Principle of justice holding that decisions should be based on objective criteria
* Faithfulness, Fidelity, Fides
* Philosophy:Filial piety - Virtue and practice in Chinese classics and Chinese society at large
* Social:Hospitality - Relationship between the guest and the host, or the art or practice of being hospitable
* Hrī
* Humanity - Virtue linked with basic ethics
* Philosophy:Humility - Quality of being humble
* Philosophy:Listening - Hearing what others are saying, and trying to understand what it means
* Social:Loyalty - Faithfulness or devotion to a person, country, group, or cause
* Obedience - Yielding to instructions from an authority figure
* Philosophy:Politeness - Practical application of good manners or etiquette so as not to offend others
* Philosophy:Pride - Positive affect from the perceived value of a person
* Reciprocity - Repayment in kind
* Philosophy:Respect - Feeling of regard for someone or something
* Reverence - Attitude of deep respect tinged with awe
* Philosophy:Solidarity - Unity of feeling or action on a common interest
* Tolerancelow others to lead a life based on a certain set of beliefs differing from one's own
* Truthfulness/Philosophy:Honesty - Moral quality of truthfulness
* Social virtues:
* Philosophy:Agreeableness - Personality trait
* Social:Charisma - Charm that can inspire devotion in others
* Philosophy:Cleanliness - Abstract state of being clean and free from dirt
* Compromise - Negotiation strategy
* Philosophy:Etiquette - Customary code of polite behaviour
* Philosophy:Eutrapelia - The ability of a person to have pleasant conversation
* Social:Interpersonal attraction - The study of the attraction between people that leads to friendship or romance
* Intimacy - Physical or emotional intimacy
* Philosophy:Leadership
* Playfulness - Voluntary, intrinsically motivated recreation
* Social:Rapport - Close and harmonious relationship
* Social:Sense of community
* Finance:Sharing
* Social:Social engagement - Degree of participation in a community or society
* Social:Social intelligence - Capacity to know oneself and to know others
* Philosophy:Social responsibility - Ethical framework
* Philosophy:Social skills - Competence facilitating interaction and communication with others
* Philosophy:Sportsmanship
* Philosophy:Sympathy - Perception of, understanding of, and reaction to the distress or need of another being
* Tact
* Social:Teamwork - Collaborative effort of a team to achieve a common goal
* Thoughtfulness
* Unpretentiousness
* Virtues of kindness
* Religion:Agape
* Philosophy:Ahimsa - Ancient Indian principle of nonviolence
* Philosophy:Altruism - Behaviour that increases the fitness of another while decreasing the fitness of self
* Charity - Voluntary giving of help to those in need
* Caritas - One of the seven theological virtues
* Christian Charity - One of the seven theological virtues
* Philosophy:Dāna - Concept of charity in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism
* Clemency - Forgiveness of a crime and cancellation of the relevant penalty
* Philosophy:Compassion - Moved or motivated to help others
* Daya
* Philosophy:Forgiveness - Renunciation or cessation of resentment, indignation, or anger
* Philosophy:Generosity - Liberal in giving
* Philosophy:Gentleness - Personal quality
* Philosophy:Karuṇā - Sanskrit term translated as compassion or mercy
* Philosophy:Kindness - Behavior marked by generosity, consideration, assistance, or concern for others
* Philosophy:Love - Emotion
* Service
* Religion:Sevā - Selfless service and volunteering in Indian religions
* Specific
* Philosophy:Cardinal virtues - Virtues of mind and character
* Philosophy:Nine Noble Virtues - Moral and situational ethical guidelines in certain groupings of Odinism and Ásatrú
* Philosophy:Prussian virtues - Ethical code associated with Prussian society
* Philosophy:Seven virtues - Seven virtues in Christian tradition
* Philosophy:Theological virtues - Christian ethics
* Intellectual virtues
* Philosophy:Attention
* Philosophy:Awareness - State or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, or sensory patterns
* Critical thinking - Analysis of facts to form a judgment
* Curiosity - Quality related to inquisitive thinking
* Philosophy:Deliberation - Process of thoughtfully weighing options, usually prior to voting
* Philosophy:Episteme - Philosophical term referring to systems of understanding (i.e. knowledge)
* Epistemic virtues
* Foresight - Behavior-based backcasting & forecasting factors
* Imagination - Creative ability
* Insight - Understanding of a specific cause and effect in a specific context
* Philosophy:Intellectual courage
* Philosophy:Intellectual humility
* Intelligence - Human capacity or ability to acquire, apprehend and apply knowledge
* Intuition - Ability to acquire knowledge, without conscious reasoning
* Philosophy:Judgement - Decision making; evaluation of evidence to make a decision
* Justice - Cardinal virtue
* Philosophy:Knowledge - Awareness of facts or being competent
* Logic
* Philosophy:Open-mindedness - Receptiveness to new ideas
* Social:Originality - Aspect of created or invented works being new or novel
* Philosophy:Perspicacity - Great discernment or insight
* Philosophy:Philosophy - Study of general and fundamental questions
* Philosophy:Phronesis - Ancient Greek word for a type of wisdom or intelligence
* Prajñā - Buddhist term often translated as "wisdom" or "intelligence"
* Problem solving - Approaches to problem solving
* Philosophy:Rationality - Quality of being agreeable to reason
* Philosophy:Reason - Capacity for consciously making sense of things
* Philosophy:Rhetoric - Art of persuasion
* Philosophy:Seny - Form of wisdom in Catalan culture
* Skepticism - Doubtful attitude toward knowledge claims
* Sophia - Personification of wisdom in philosophy and religion
* Philosophy:Understanding - Ability to think about and use concepts to deal adequately with a subject
* Philosophy:Wisdom - Ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight
* Philosophy:Wit - Form of humour
* Other
* List of emotions
* Philosophy:Akrodha - Important virtue in Indian philosophy and Hindu ethics
* Philosophy:Amor fati - Latin phrase meaning "love of fate"
* Philosophy:Aparigraha
* Philosophy:Auctoritas - Roman prestige; contrast with power, imperium
* Autonomy - Capacity for control, discretion or political self-governance
* Balance
* Benevolence
* Candor
* Cautiousness
* Citizenship
* Philosophy:Civil courage
* Consideration
* Dependability - Measure in systems engineering
* Detachment - state in which a person overcomes their attachment to desire for things, people or concepts of the world
* Dignitas - Ancient Roman virtue
* Discernment - Ability to obtain sharp perceptions
* Philosophy:Duty - Commitment or obligation to someone or something or to perform an action on the behalf of
* Medicine:Elevation (emotion)
* Fairness
* Philosophy:Faith - Confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept
* Freedom
* Giri - Duty as one of the Japanese values
* Glory
* Philosophy:Good faith - Intention to be fair, open, and honest
* Goodness
* Philosophy:Happiness - Mental state, noted for pleasant emotions
* Philosophy:Impartiality - Principle of justice holding that decisions should be based on objective criteria
* Social:Independence - Condition of a nation with self-governance
* Philosophy:Individualism - Concept regarding the moral worth of the individual
* Philosophy:Innocence
* Philosophy:Integrity - Moral virtue and practice
* Philosophy:Jing
* Li - Chinese philosophy concept
* Philosophy:Magnanimity - Virtue of being great of mind and heart
* Magnificence
* Philosophy:Meekness - Personality trait of being docile and avoiding violence
* Philosophy:Moral courage
* Philosophy:Morality - Differentiation between right and wrong
* Philosophy:Mudita
* Religion:Nimrata - Sikh virtue of humility or benevolence
* Nonattachment - Philosophy of avoiding unnecessary pain
* Social:Nonviolence - Principle or practice of not causing harm to others
* Philosophy:Optimism - Positive mental attitude
* Orderliness
* Social:Patriotism - Love and attachment to one's country
* Peacefulness - Concept
* Philosophy:Philotimo - Greek notion of duty and honor
* Philosophy:Piety - Religious devotion or spirituality
* Philosophy:Pity - Sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others
* Potential
* Punctuality - Doing something at or before a previously designated time
* Purity
* Religion
* Responsibility - Concept in ethics
* Religion:Righteous indignation - Man's version of commination
* Philosophy:Righteousness - State of being morally correct and justifiable
* Religion:Sadaqah - Charity in Islam
* Saddhā - Important element of the teachings of the Buddha
* Religion:Santokh - Contentment, one of five virtues that is promoted in Sikhism
* Philosophy:Satya - Sanskrit word and a virtue in Indian religions
* Philosophy:Shaucha - Cleanliness in Indic religions and yoga
* Philosophy:Self-esteem - Human emotional need
* Self-reliance - Concept regarding the moral worth of the individual
* Philosophy:Self-transcendence - Psychological concept: expansion of personal boundaries
* Silence
* Philosophy:Sincerity - The virtue of honest and genuine communication
* Philosophy:Sophrosyne - Ancient Greek concept of an ideal of excellence of character and soundness of mind
* Śraddhā
* Philosophy:Spirituality - Philosophical and theological term
* Stability
* Subsidiarity - Principle of social organization
* Taste - Personal and cultural pattern of choice and preference
* Trust - Assumption of and reliance on the honesty of another party
* Unity
* Philosophy:Upekṣā
* Yi - Concept in Confucianism

##### Vices

Main page: Philosophy:Vice

* Anger - emotional response related to one's psychological interpretation of having been threatened. Often it indicates when one's basic boundaries are violated. Some have a learned tendency to react to anger through retaliation. Anger may be utilized effectively when utilized to set boundaries or escape from dangerous situations.
* Jealousy - emotion, and the word typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something of great personal value, particularly in reference to a human connection. Jealousy often consists of a combination of emotions such as anger, resentment, inadequacy, helplessness and disgust.
* Laziness - disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to do so. It is often used as a pejorative; related terms for a person seen to be lazy include couch potato, slacker, and bludger.
* Selfishness -
* Seven Deadly Sins
1. Lust - emotion or feeling of intense desire in the body. The lust can take any form such as the lust for knowledge, the lust for sex or the lust for power. It can take such mundane forms as the lust for food as distinct from the need for food.
2. Gluttony – over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or wealth items to the point of extravagance or waste. In some Christian denominations, it is considered one of the seven deadly sins—a misplaced desire of food or its withholding from the needy.
3. Greed - also known as avarice, cupidity, or covetousness, is the inordinate desire to possess wealth, goods, or objects of abstract value with the intent to keep it for one's self, far beyond the dictates of basic survival and comfort. It is applied to a markedly high desire for and pursuit of wealth, status, and power. See also, Greed (deadly sin).
4. Sloth - spiritual or emotional apathy, neglecting what God has spoken, and being physically and emotionally inactive. It can also be either an outright refusal or merely a carelessness in the performance of one's obligations, especially spiritual, moral or legal obligations. Sloth can also indicate a wasting due to lack of use, concerning a person, place, thing, skill, or intangible ideal that would require maintenance, refinement, or support to continue to exist.
5. Wrath - also known as "rage", may be described as inordinate and uncontrolled feelings of hatred and anger. Wrath, in its purest form, presents with self-destructiveness, violence, and hate that may provoke feuds that can go on for centuries. Wrath may persist long after the person who did another a grievous wrong is dead. Feelings of anger can manifest in different ways, including impatience, revenge, and self-destructive behavior, such as drug abuse or suicide.
6. Envy - emotion which "occurs when a person lacks another's superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it"
7. Pride - inflated sense of one's personal status or accomplishments, often used synonymously with hubris.
* Vanity - excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others.

##### Harmful traits and practices

* Abjection
* Abnormal psychology
* Bias
* Crime
* Deception
* Dysfunctional family
* Existential crisis
* Failure
* Grandiosity
* Hubris
* Hypocrisy
* Identity crisis
* Ignorance
* Impostor syndrome
* Narcissism
* Pessimism
* Risk
* Self-abasement
* Self-absorbed
* Self-abuse
* Self-blame
* Self-criticism
* Self-deception
* Self-deprecation
* Self-envy
* Self-estrangement
* Self-handicapping
* Self-harm
* Self-hatred
* Self-immolation
* Self-loathing
* Self-pity
* Self-propaganda
* Self-punishment
* Self-righteousness
* Self-serving
* Self-victimization
* Selfism
* Sexual self-objectification
* Stress
* Suicide

## Personal experience

### Personal life

Personal life

#### Stages of life

1\. Infancy
2\. Childhood
3\. Adolescence
4\. Adulthood
5\. Middle age
6\. Old age

#### Major life events

1\. Birth
2\. Education
3\. Graduation
4\. Coming of age
5\. Employment
6\. Marriage
7\. Parenthood
8\. Retirement
9\. Death

### Self-actualization

Self-actualization -

* Action
* Competence
* Effectiveness
* Efficacy
* Success

#### Maturity

Self-management -

* Autodidacticism (self-education)
* Goal
* Goal setting
* Decision making
* Etiquette
* Intention
* Motivation
* Personal budget
* Personal development
* Personal finance
* Problem solving
* Self-actualization
* Self-assessment
* Self-awareness
* Introspection
* Self-compassion
* Self-concealment
* Self-consciousness
* Self-control
* Self-defense
* Self-development
* Self-discipline
* Self-disclosure
* Self-discovery
* Self-efficacy
* Self-enhancement
* Self-estimated
* Self-gratification
* Self-help
* Self-interest
* Self-justification
* Self-knowledge
* Self-love
* Self-monitoring
* Self-reflection
* Self-regulated learning
* Self-respect
* Self-sufficiency
* Self-verification
* Stress management
* Time management

#### Self-preservation and self-maintenance

* Enlightened self-interest
* Health
* Housekeeping
* Life extension
* Personal hygiene
* Personal safety
* Physical fitness
* Self-care
* Self-preservation
* Well-being

## Individual rights

Individual rights - much of the western world values the concept of individual rights. These rights vary from culture to culture, and by very definition, from person to person, and appear mainly in individualist societies. In considering the self, the most intimate legal relation would be what is codified as 'sui juris', or what laws have a purposed place so far as they are derived of the self. In such cultures, it is generally considered that each and every individual has the following rights:

* Security rights - protect people against crimes such as abuse, murder, massacre, and torture
* Security of person - liberty, including the right, if one is imprisoned unlawfully, to the remedy of habeas corpus. Security of person can also be seen as an expansion of rights based on prohibitions of torture and cruel and unusual punishment. Rights to security of person can guard against less lethal conduct, and can be used in regard to prisoners' rights.
* Bodily and property rights - encompass "ownership" of your own body and choosing what to do with it, as well as the fruits of the labour that spring forth from using your own body. ("Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself," per John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government)
* Self-ownership - moral or natural right of a person to have bodily integrity, and be the exclusive controller of his own body and life. Also known as "sovereignty of the individual", "individual sovereignty", and "individual autonomy".
* Liberty rights of the Classical era - protect freedoms in areas such as belief and religion, association, assembling, movement, and other self-determination (as an individual person), privacy from government and others, and freedoms from other paternalist meddling generally, whether by governments or others; also encompasses security, bodily and property, political, and due process rights, many group rights, some welfare rights, and (especially outside of the US in the Classical era) equality rights, as all of those categories appear in this list
* Political rights - protect the liberty to participate in politics by expressing themselves, protesting, voting and serving in public office
* Due process rights - protect against abuses of the legal system such as imprisonment without trial, secret trials and excessive punishments; often overlaps with the bodily rights, listed above
* Equality rights - guarantee equal citizenship, equality before the law and nondiscrimination in regards to one's eligibility for all of the other rights in this list
* Welfare rights (also known as economic or social rights) - require the provision of education and protections against severe poverty and starvation; generally an expansion of positive liberties
* Group rights - provide protection for groups against ethnic genocide, and self-determination (as a group) and the ownership by countries of their national territories and resources; may overlap with the bodily and property rights, and Social equality rights, listed above

## Other personal concepts

* Ability
* Aptitude
* Attitude
* Behavior
* Competence
* Character traits
* Chronotype
* Early bird
* Night owl
* Common sense
* Communication skills
* Duty
* Everyday life
* Egocentrism
* Egoism
* Emotional intelligence
* Ethics
* Good and evil
* Freedom (philosophy)
* Freedom (political)
* Free will
* Harm principle
* Human sexual behavior
* Human sexuality
* Humanism
* Improvement
* Individualism
* Individuality
* Individuation
* Interest
* Intrapersonal communication
* Justice
* Liberty
* Lifestyle (List)
* Lifestyle disease
* Luck
* Meaning of life
* Morality
* Occupational disease
* Ownership
* Parenting
* People skills
* Personal boundaries
* Personal income
* Personal life
* Note-taking
* Personal property
* Personal space
* Personal time
* Philosophy
* Privacy
* Property
* Proxemics
* Psychological stress
* Public
* Reputation
* Self-talk
* Self-schema
* Self-worth
* Social influence
* Social intelligence
* Soft skills
* Study skills
* Subjectivity
* Success
* Taste (aesthetics)
* Taste (sociology)
* Temperament
* Thought
* Transhumanism

## See also

* Collaboration
* Cosmos
* Cosmology
* Externality
* List of cognitive biases
* Outline of social science
* Rite of passage
* Social behavior
* Trade-off

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