Meaning of empirical ego | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Examples

“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.”

“The empirical ego is an object in the world, and, insofar as it is experienced and known, it must be subject to worldly causality.”

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