Here you can find the new abstract of Nadia Fernanda Vargas Estrada!! The Search for identity” What drives each person to look for its role in this world? Do we have one? Is it driven by us or by a higher force? If driven by a higher one, do we truly have free will? Is then, our identity truly ours? Known in different cultures as the “the awkward years” or “los años que adoleces” (a play on how apparently similar the word for “adolescent” is to the word “to pain” in Spanish), the search for our identity has been a concern for each person throughout history. I will start by analyzing the concept of Socrates’ daimon mainly as presented in Plato’s Apology in its relationship with the idea of god. I will continue with an analysis of Plato’s role of identity and daimon in the sociopolitical system as he proposed it in his work The Republic, digging into the contrast between individual and community identity. Thus I will continue with Aristotle’s concept of telos as presented in his works, focusing principally in his Nicomachean Ethics and Physics. I will then return to the analysis of Socrates’ relationship with the daimon and God, in a teleological context. For the last section, I will make use of Michael Hoggs’ Social Identity Theory (2006) and Uncertainty-Identity Theory. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (2007) as tools to contextualize my previous observations in our era and will conclude with an analysis of a quote regarding free will and God by Pope Francis in his most recent interview A Big Heart Open to God (2013). The purpose of this paper will be to analyze the components of identity, its relationship with God, its role as personal or communal within a society, both Platonic and contemporary. jfrcconference.altervista.org/pagina-504909.html
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