单词 | thinking subject |
释义 | > as lemmasthinking subject 9. A being (or †power) that thinks, knows, or perceives (more fully conscious subject, thinking subject); the conscious mind, esp. as opposed to any objects external to it (see object n. 5). In later use also more broadly: the person or self considered as a conscious agent.The tendency in modern philosophy after Descartes to make the mind's consciousness of itself the starting point of philosophical inquiry led to the use of Latin subjectum for the mind or ego considered as the subject of all knowledge, and after Kant this became, outside logic, the general philosophical use of the word (with its derivatives subjective, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > subjectivity, relation to self > [noun] > system of subjective being > subjective being, self mindc1350 myself1526 selfhood1568 self1641 ipseity1659 subject1682 seity1709 I1710 ego1824 1682 G. Rust Disc. Truth xviii Thus have we spoken concerning the truth of things, or Truth in the Object: It follows that we speak concerning Truth in the power, or faculty, which we call Truth in the Subject. 1697 J. Norris Acct. Reason & Faith i. 19 I consider..that the most general distribution of Reason is into that of the Object and that of the Subject; or, to word it more Intelligibly, though perhaps not altogether so Scholastically, into that of the Thing, and that of the Understanding. 1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous i. 10 Phil. Is your material substance a senseless being, or a being endowed with sense and perception? Hyl. It is senseless, without doubt. Phil. It cannot therefore be the subject of pain? 1779 J. Fisher Rev. Doctr. Philos. Necessity vi. 66 Dr. Berkley argues, that there is at least the possibility of the thinking subject having false and delusive ideas of solidity. 1796 F. A. Nitsch Gen. View Kant's Princ. conc. Man 72 In every knowledge, perception, &c., there is something which refers to an object, and something which refers to the knowing or perceiving subject. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. I. xii. 270 A spirit is..an absolute subject for which all, itself included, may become an object. 1829 Edinb. Rev. 50 196 (note) The thinking subject, the Ego. 1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason i. 293 The thinking subject is the object of Psychology. 1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica i. 7 Every state of consciousness necessarily implies two elements at least; a conscious subject, and an object of which he is conscious. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 39/1 The conception of a mind or conscious subject is to be found implicitly or explicitly in all psychological writers whatever. 1920 H. C. Sheldon Pantheistic Dilemmas v. 137 The very fact that the disturbance of the sense of personal identity is in all scientific verdicts pronounced pathological is on the side of the reality of the persisting self-identical subject. 1972 R. C. Solomon From Rationalism to Existentialism i. iii. 86 Descartes claims that the subject is a thinking substance..; Kant argues that one must presuppose a thinking subject (although not a thinking substance). 2009 C. C. Robinson Wittgenstein & Polit. Theory ii. 58 Wittgenstein opposes..the metaphysical exclusiveness and abstract rationalism of the Cartesian subject who has privileged access to its own mind and cannot know the minds of others. < as lemmas |
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