ABSTRACT
The seeing revolution was accompanied by a changed notion of what it meant to be a self–in other words, a self that inhabits a scientific world. The individual self is necessarily in a particular social and historical context that fosters the process by which, as another scholar puts it, "modern man matured towards a consciousness of himself". In Francis Bacon's view, the self can take itself as the object of scientific knowledge and then, avoiding anthropomorphism by embracing the scientific method, project that self outward into nature. For many scholars, a break seems to exist between the view of the self as a moral being and that advanced by Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations. Man's gradual self-determination took place in the course of history, as he came closer and closer to godlike powers and comprehension. Modern self is a contested self, in which many forces are at play and war.
