From Self-Awareness to the Notion of Objectivity

This paper proposes an epistemological sequence that emerges directly from the thesis thatconsciousness consists in the objectification of one's own thought (Iguiniz Agesta, 2026). Thesequence has four steps: self-awareness as the condition of possibility of everything thatfollows; the recognition that others also self-perceive; the recognition that those other selfperceptions entail perceptions different from one's own; and the notion of objectivity as apossibility that emerges from that recognition. No step is automatic or necessary. Each oneopens the next without guaranteeing it. The specific characteristic of this proposal is that itdescribes a path that consciousness itself can travel from within, without technicalphilosophical mediation or prior tradition. The proposal is situated in relation to Hegel,Buber, and Habermas, noting convergences and divergences