【自己理解に関する8つの質問／8Questions on Self-Understanding】

【取扱説明書／Instructions】

この質問に正解はありません。
There are no correct answers to these questions.
まずはあなたなりの回答を僕に教えてください。
First, share your own answers with me.

僕のインスタのDMに回答してくださった方には、あなたの回答をもとに、さらに問いをお渡しします。
For those who send their responses to my Instagram DMs, I will offer you further questions — ones that arise from your own answers.

【8つの質問／8Questions】

1. 理解とは何か？／What is understanding?
理とは何か？

What is 理 — principle, reason, the logic beneath things?
解とは何か？
What is 解 — solution, dissolution, the act of coming undone?
理で解くのが、理解か？
Is understanding the act of solving things with principle?
理を解くのが、理解か？
Or is understanding the act of dissolving principle itself?

2. 自己理解の目的は？／What is the purpose of self-understanding?

僕たちは何のために自己理解するのか？
Why do we seek to understand ourselves in the first place?
自己理解に目的があることで、その理解はどんなものになるのか？
When self-understanding has a purpose, what kind of understanding does it become?
もし、目的がない場合、自己理解はどうなるのか？
And if it has no purpose — what becomes of self-understanding then?
自己理解とは何のためにあるのか？
What is self-understanding ultimately for?

3. なぜ自己理解の必要があるのか？／Why do we need self-understanding?

目的（欲しい）と必要性を分けて考えてみる。
Let us distinguish between wanting and needing.
欲しいから必要な自己理解とは？
What kind of self-understanding is needed because it is wanted?
必要だから欲しい自己理解とは？
What kind of self-understanding is wanted because it is needed?
自己理解の必要がない社会になったらどうなる？
What would happen if we lived in a society where self-understanding was no longer necessary?

4. 自己理解と他者理解は同じか？違うか？／Is understanding yourself the same as understanding others — or different?

自己理解と他者理解が同じなら？
If self-understanding and understanding others are the same —
「自分が自分のことを一番わかってる」ならば、他者のことも一番わかってると言えるのか？
— does knowing yourself best mean you also know others best?
自己理解と他者理解が違うとしたら？
If they are different —
自己理解と他者理解はどのような関係にあるのか？
— what is the relationship between them?

5. 誰と自己理解をすべきなのか？／With whom should self-understanding be pursued?

自分1人の場合。
When pursued alone —
自分が自分の何を理解することが出来るのだろうか？
— what aspects of oneself can one actually come to understand?
他者と行う場合。
When pursued with others —
できてるできてないで、相手を選べばいいのか？
— should we choose our companions based on how well they understand themselves?

6. 自己理解に終わりはあるのか？／Does self-understanding ever end?

終わりがあるとしたら？
If it does end —
自己理解の完結・完了・終焉は、人と人との関係に何をもたらすか？
— what does the completion, conclusion, or ending of self-understanding bring to our relationships with others?
終わりがないとしたら？
If it never ends —
終わりなき理解は、人と人との関係にどう影響するのか？
— how does understanding without end shape the way we relate to one another?

7. もし自己理解が無くなったら？／What if self-understanding disappeared entirely?

自己理解のない社会。
A society without self-understanding.
自分が自分との関係はどうなる？
What would become of one’s relationship with oneself?
自分と他者との関係は？
What would become of one’s relationship with others?
世の中や社会はどうなっていくだろう？
And what would become of the world — of society itself?

8. 自己理解とは何か？／What is self-understanding?

ここまでの7つの問いかけを踏まえて。
Having moved through these seven questions —
自己理解とは、自分が自分の何を誰とどのようにどうすることが、自己理解となり得るのだろう？
— what must one attend to, with whom, and in what manner, for something to truly become self-understanding?
そして、その自己理解は、他者理解とどう関係していくのか？
And how does that self-understanding come to relate to the understanding of others?
その結果、僕たち人と人との関係性はどうなるのか？
And in the end — what becomes of the relationships between us?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​