To know oneself

To know oneself, is not to be self-centered or having one’s own body as project in life. Socrates was not self-centered, he understood him self as part of reality understood as cosmos. The stoic tradition explore nature and to live a good life is to live according to nature. Today’s culture of optimization of oneself is an attempt to conquer nature. The essence of knowing one self is to know one self as been part of reality and not to master reality.