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transcendental ego

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transcendental ego

alt. (context philosophy phenomenology Kantianism English) The conscious self which is the unifying subject of a person's experiences and which cannot itself be experienced as an object, understood by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel%20Kant (1724-1804) as knowable only by inference, and understood by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Husserl (1859-1938) as pure consciousness. n. (context philosophy phenomenology Kantianism English) The conscious self which is the unifying subject of a person's experiences and which cannot itself be experienced as an object, understood by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel%20Kant (1724-1804) as knowable only by inference, and understood by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Husserl (1859-1938) as pure consciousness.