Who Am I?
By DONALD DeMARCO A fundamental and unquestioned principle of philosophy is that a thing cannot be itself and something other than itself at the same time. A rose is a rose and cannot be, at the same time, a daffodil.Today, that principle is not only questioned but has been overturned. It is no longer reason that determines first principles but “will.” The poor rose does not have a will. It must remain a rose as long as it lives. A person, however, no longer must be who he is, but has the right and the capacity to be whatever and whomever he wants to be.There was a time when a person who declared himself to be Napoleon would be sent…Continue Reading