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empirical ego

empirical ego noun: in the thought of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl, the self of each person, understood as the locus of personality and capable of being known as an object by means of reflective awareness, in contrast with the transcendental ego which is always an experiencing subject.

Noun

empirical ego (plural empirical egos)

  1. In the thought of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl, the self of each person, understood as the locus of personality and capable of being known as an object by means of reflective awareness, in contrast with the transcendental ego which is always an experiencing subject.
    • When he debates, Shall I commit this crime? choose that profession? accept that office, or marry this fortune?—his choice really lies between one of several equally possible future Selves. What his entire empirical Ego shall become, is fixed by the conduct of this moment.1879, William James, “Are We Automata?”, in Mind, volume 4, number 13, page 13
    • The empirical ego is an object in the world, and, insofar as it is experienced and known, it must be subject to worldly causality.1977, David Carr, “Kant, Husserl, and the Nonempirical Ego”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 74, number 11, page 688

empirical ego meaning in Tamil

empirical ego in Tamil

புலன்தொடர்புற்ற யான்மை

Forms of empirical ego

pluralempirical egos

Questions about empirical ego

What does empirical ego mean?
Empirical ego means in the thought of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl, the self of each person, understood as the locus of personality and capable of being known as an object by means of reflective awareness, in contrast with the transcendental ego which is always an experiencing subject.
What is empirical ego in Tamil?
Empirical ego in Tamil is புலன்தொடர்புற்ற யான்மை. See Empirical ego meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is empirical ego?
Empirical ego is a noun.
What is the plural of empirical ego?
The plural of empirical ego is empirical egos.

Words near empirical ego in the dictionary

  1. empirehood
  2. empires
  3. empiric
  4. empirical
  5. empirical data
  6. empirical ego
  7. empirical egos
  8. empirical evidence
  9. empirical formula
  10. empirical formulae
  11. empirical formulas

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