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By Stephen Priest

The topic in Question offers a desirable perception right into a debate among of the 20th century's most renowned philosophers - Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl - over the main notions of wakeful event and the self. Sartre's The Transcendence of the Ego, released in 1937, is a huge textual content within the phenomenological culture and units the path for a lot of his later paintings. The topic in Question is the 1st full-length research of this recognized paintings and its impact on twentieth-century philosophy. It additionally investigates the connection among Sartre's rules and the sooner paintings of Descartes and Kant.

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Of course, just as a mathematical or logical statement may be given an interpretation and be true under that interpretation so the transcendental unity of apperception may be given an ontology of the person and be true of experience in virtue of that ontology. As Sartre rightly points out, Kant is not committed to the existence of a transcendental ego. Indeed, he is arguably committed to the view that there is no such thing. There is no irreducibly subjective source of consciousness in Kant’s philosophy and it is the important negative thesis of the Paralogisms chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason that the subject is not a substance.

Similarly, although formal proof in mathematics holds irrespective of interpretations it is not clear that there could be mathematics without, in some sense, mathematical reality; if not Platonic numbers then at least computation or numbers of things. The transcendental unity of apperception, however intended by Kant and understood by Sartre, cannot be utterly formal because it is true of something: it is true of any set of experiences which belong to a single subject. What we need to know is in virtue of what exactly it is true rather than false that any presentation to a subject may be truly prefaced by ‘I think that…’.

These possibilities would seem to be open. But clearly, there is a kind of ‘escape’ from selfconsciousness or consciousness’s reflection upon itself involved when one’s attention is absorbed by the object of consciousness. It could be that these distinctions admit of degrees that are not readily captured by the distinctions available to us at present. But Sartre says more than that consciousness escapes from itself. He says that by doing this it unifies itself. The thinking here is that unless there existed an intentional object there could exist no unity of consciousness.

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