单词 | transcendental ego |
释义 | > as lemmastranscendental ego transcendental ego n. chiefly Philosophy (in Kantian and idealist thought) the noumenal self, which is itself beyond the reach of empirical knowledge but is postulated to explain how empirical knowledge is possible; (in wider use) a higher self or part of the self conceived as transcending the realm of ordinary knowledge or experience; frequently opposed to empirical ego n. at empirical adj. and n. Compounds; cf. transcendental self n. [After German transzendentales Ich (1787 or earlier in a letter by Kant, as transscendentales Ich). Kant introduced the concept in his Critik der reinen Vernunft (1781), although he did not use the term in that work, speaking instead of the ‘transcendental unity of apperception’ (transscendentale Einheit der Apperception).] ΚΠ 1859 G. Jamieson Essentials Philos. iv. iii. 169 Kant..lays at the foundation a transcendental Ego or unity, regarded as absolute substance, absolute simplicity, absolute personality, whose characteristic he depicted as pure reason. 1896 Mind 5 394 If we reject the conception of a transcendental ego, the conception of an empirical ego must go along with it, for they are only conceived in antithesis to one another. 1914 G. F. Moore Metempsychosis 15 The true self is not what men think, whether they identify it with the body or self-conscious mind, but a transcendental Ego, essentially inactive and impassive, untouched by all the changes of its environment. 1957 F. Williams & R. Kirkpatrick in tr. J.-P. Sartre Transcendence Ego Introd. 19 Let us suppose, as Husserl claimed, that a transcendental ego ‘stands behind’ consciousness. 2005 M. A. R. Habib Hist. Literary Crit. xiv. 364 It is the transcendental ego (standing above experience) which unites and enables an ordering of the various experiences of the empirical ego. < as lemmas |
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