GentlyWeeping

Been reading Hegel's philosophy of Right this past 2 weeks, well not really reading his work but rather the abridged version, but nonetheless think its a really good piece especially when it comes to the part on his conception of the 'person'.

So basically Hegel is saying then that the person or the self in a way is what is rational in its decision making, but not so much so that the person is entirely rational in every sense, but a form of middle way between 100% rationality and 100% action based on desire.
Which kind of makes sense in a way, for if we were to see the true self as something that can only emerge as entirely free from 'culture' and in a sense free to do how and whatever one pleases, that is not true freedom as the person is but a slave then to the desires that motivate his or her actions. Rather its the ability then to comprehend desires, rationalise and then choose how to act in which then the person comes about and in a way the true self.

What if then the true self is not so much this idea of being free from constraint, the supposedly entirely uniqueness of oneself. But rather the true self is then how one chooses then to rationalise and then choose to act in accordance with the stimulus present through the various faculties available to one then to express it.