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[filed under theme 16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 4. Presupposition of Self
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Full Idea
Many people are comfortable taking the pragmatic approach to night/day, living/nonliving and mammal/premammal, but get anxious about the same attitude to having a self and not having a self. It must be All or Nothing, and One to a Customer.
Gist of Idea
People accept blurred boundaries in many things, but insist self is All or Nothing
Source
Daniel C. Dennett (Consciousness Explained [1991], 13.2)
Book Ref
Dennett,Daniel C.: 'Consciousness Explained' [Penguin 1993], p.422
A Reaction
Personally I think I believe in the existence of the self, but I also agree with Dennett. I greatly admire his campaign against All or Nothing thinking, which is a relic from an earlier age. A partial self could result from infancy or brain damage.
The
20 ideas
with the same theme
[Self can be inferred to exist, rather than experienced]:
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The nature of all animate things is to have one part which rules it
[Aristotle]
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21317
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Despite consciousness fluctuating, we are aware that it belongs to one person
[Butler]
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9751
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To some extent we must view ourselves as noumena
[Kant, by Korsgaard]
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21450
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Representation would be impossible without the 'I think' that accompanies it
[Kant]
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22060
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The Self is the spontaneity, self-relatedness and unity needed for knowledge
[Fichte, by Siep]
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22066
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Novalis sought a much wider concept of the ego than Fichte's proposal
[Novalis on Fichte]
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22016
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The self is not a 'thing', but what emerges from an assertion of normativity
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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23243
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Consciousness of external things is always accompanied by an unnoticed consciousness of self
[Fichte]
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22073
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The basis of philosophy is the Self prior to experience, where it is the essence of freedom
[Schelling]
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21225
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The psychological ego is worldly, and the pure ego follows transcendental reduction
[Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]
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22323
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The philosophical I is the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world
[Wittgenstein]
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2940
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The subject stands outside our understanding of the world
[Wittgenstein]
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7109
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If you think of '2+2=4' as the content of thought, the self must be united transcendentally
[Sartre]
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3827
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The self is neither an experience nor a thing experienced
[Searle]
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3285
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We may be unable to abandon personal identity, even when split-brains have undermined it
[Nagel]
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3293
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If you assert that we have an ego, you can still ask if that future ego will be me
[Nagel]
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3244
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Personal identity cannot be fully known a priori
[Nagel]
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3245
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The question of whether a future experience will be mine presupposes personal identity
[Nagel]
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7385
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People accept blurred boundaries in many things, but insist self is All or Nothing
[Dennett]
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19650
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The transcendental subject is not an entity, but a set of conditions making science possible
[Meillassoux]
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