释义 |
not-self [f. not adv. 14 d + self.] That which is other than self; something different from the conscious self; the non-ego. So not-ˈselfness.
1839Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 192 This not-self or non-ego. 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 154, I am conscious of all that passes within myself; but I am not conscious of what passes in not-self. 1872Dublin Rev. July 145 A philosophy that shall confirm the existence of an independent Not-Self. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxii, Our self is a not-self for whose sake we become virtuous. 1901J. M. E. McTaggart Stud. Hegelian Cosmol. ix. 277 But I mean that the characteristic which experience possesses of being not-self—its ‘not-selfness’, if the barbarism is permissible,—will always remain as an external and alien element. 1927J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation viii. 285 The objective outer world and the subjective un-self-organised parts of the mind are usually interwoven in what is felt as ‘not-self’. 1949D. L. Sayers tr. Dante's Divine Comedy I. 68 That experience of the Not-self—which, by arousing his adoring love, has become for him the God-bearing image. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Oct. 581/1 Reality for him belongs exclusively to the Atman, the one impersonal Self or not-Self with which we can, and should, identify ourselves by shedding all that is personal, desirous and therefore fatally separatist in ourselves. 1960C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 25 His proper concern is with the object to be created—an object which, however much of himself goes into it, must end up as not-self. |