If I am asked in the framework of Book 1, "Who are you?" I, in answering, might say "I dont know who in the world I am." Nevertheless there is a sense in which I always know what "I" refers to and can never not know, even if I have become, e.g., amnesiac. Yet in Book 2, "Who are you?" has other senses of oneself in mind than the nonsortal "myself". For example, it might be the pragmatic context, as in a bureaucratic setting but "Who are you?" or "Who am I?" might be more anguished and be rendered by "What sort of person are you?" or "What sort am I?" Such a question often surfaces in the face of a "limitsituation", such as ones death or in the wake of a shameful deed where we are compelled to find our "centers", what we also will call "Existenz". "Existenz" here refers to the center of the person. In the face of the limitsituation one is called upon to act unconditionally in the determination of oneself and ones being in the world. In this Book 2 we discuss chiefly ones normative personalmoral identity which stands in contrast to the transcendental I where ones nonsortal unique identity is given from the start. This moral identity requires a unique selfdetermination and normative selfconstitution which may be thought of with the help of the metaphor of "vocation". We will see that it has especial ties to ones Existenz as well as to love. This Book 2 claims that the moralpersonal ideal sense of who one is is linked to the transcendental who through a notion of entelechy....

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