Self-Creativity

In the process of building a house, the distinctions between creator, created, and process of creation, are easier to discern than in the process of Self-Creation. Furthermore, the latter is already complicated by questions of whether the 'I' is unitary or is multiple, and of how internal reflexivity is constituted, as Kant's concept of Autonomy exemplifies, i. e. that concept entails a combination of Transcendental Ego, Empirical Ego, and Legislative Will, without fully accounting for the Elective 'I'. In contrast, the model of Personhood that has been proposed here more smoothly systematizes a process of Self-Creation--the 'creator' is the previously achieved 'I' at the outset of the process; the 'creation' is the actual process, consisting of the interaction of a Formal Cause and a Material Cause; and the 'created' is what one becomes at the end of the process, which, in turn, is the achieved 'I' at the outset of the next process. Lacking in alternative theories of Selfhood tends to be the appreciation that a 'self' is made, not given.