Ideas and Sentiments of Space until Nobility

16 May 2026, Version 1
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Abstract

What is Dignity? This modest treatise seeks to define this concept, whose affinities include Honor and Nobility of Soul, and various other feelings and ideas that circulate in people's minds, for now limited to those related to space. Foundation is that Psyche is an adaptive organ in that it shapes and parallels itself to external phenomena that enter and organize themselves in the Mind, onto whose ideas the instincts project emotional energies giving rise to feelings. Thus, objects correspond to the Ego, which has volume and surface in the feelings of Autonomy and Demeanor, can feel great in Greatness-Magnitude or small in Humility, can express itself towards others with Pride-Arrogance or with Respect, tend towards Domination-Tyranny or Subjugation-Slavery, just as objects are above or below. Just as every object has a summit, bigness, thickness, and is above, or vice versa, a base, smallness, fineness, and is below, so Ego develops its feelings, similar and parallel to the qualities of space that the mind assimilates. It is with these feelings that it explores physical reality and experiences social relationships, extroverted and introverted pushes that Dignity or Nobility, in a mature Ego, has the function of balancing.

Keywords

Trust or Mistrust
Extrovert and Introvert
Dominant and Submissive
Faith
Concord
Tyranny
Humility

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