单词 | transcendental self |
释义 | > as lemmastranscendental self transcendental self n. chiefly Philosophy a higher self or part of the self conceived as transcending the realm of ordinary knowledge or experience; spec. (in post-Kantian thought) the transcendental ego; frequently opposed to empirical self n. at empirical adj. and n. Compounds; cf. transcendental ego n. [Probably partly after German transzendentales Selbst (1846 or earlier), and partly after German transzendentales Ich (see transcendental ego n.).] ΚΠ 1857 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 619/1 Beyond the field of consciousness there must exist a transcendental self, the ground and support of the phenomena; and to this transcendental subject..we may legitimately attribute a power of self-determination, or free causality. 1926 E. C. Butler Western Mysticism (ed. 2) i. 140 The essence of the soul..is what the mystics mean when they speak of the centre of the soul, or its apex... It has also been called in modern terminology the core of the personality, and the transcendental self. 1952 H. A. Hodges Philos. W. Dilthey ii. 29 Kant and the Neo-Kantians do not agree as to whether there is an independently existing reality behind the phenomena of nature, but they all agree in distinguishing between the ‘empirical’ and the ‘transcendental’ self. 1990 Yoga Jrnl. July 33/3 The transcendental Self..is inherently pure, perfect. The human mind..is not. 2002 F. C. Beiser German Idealism 4 Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel..made the Kantian transcendental self.., which was essentially only a construct to explain the possibility of a single objective experience,..into a metaphysical principle, the single universal self that is the source of all of nature and history. < as lemmas |
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