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Single Idea 7106
[filed under theme 16. Persons / B. Nature of the Self / 6. Self as Higher Awareness
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Full Idea
I should like to show here that the Ego is neither formally nor materially in consciousness; it is outside, in the world; it is a being in the world, like the Ego of another.
Clarification
The Ego is out in the world, not a formal or material part of consciousness
Gist of Idea
The Ego is not formally or materially part of consciousness, but is outside in the world
Source
Jean-Paul Sartre (Transcendence of the Ego [1937], Intro)
Book Ref
Sartre,Jean-Paul: 'The Transcendence of the Ego' [Routledge 2004], p.1
A Reaction
This idea is the germ of what has got modern externalists about the mind (see quotations from Mark Rowlands) interested in Sartre. Personally I think he is wrong, and the Ego is a part of consciousness. It doesn't, though, have sharp boundaries.
The
21 ideas
from 'Transcendence of the Ego'
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22226
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Since we are a consciousness, Sartre entirely rejected the unconscious mind
[Sartre, by Daigle]
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7106
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The Ego is not formally or materially part of consciousness, but is outside in the world
[Sartre]
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7125
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A consciousness can conceive of no other consciousness than itself
[Sartre]
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7108
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The eternal truth of 2+2=4 is what gives unity to the mind which regularly thinks it
[Sartre]
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7111
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Consciousness exists as consciousness of itself
[Sartre]
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7107
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Intentionality defines, transcends and unites consciousness
[Sartre]
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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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7110
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If the 'I' is transcendental, it unnecessarily splits consciousness in two
[Sartre]
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7115
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Maybe it is the act of reflection that brings 'me' into existence
[Sartre]
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7116
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When we are unreflective (as when chasing a tram) there is no 'I'
[Sartre]
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7117
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How could two I's, the reflective and the reflected, communicate with each other?
[Sartre]
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7113
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Phenomenology assumes that all consciousness is of something
[Sartre]
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7114
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The consciousness that says 'I think' is not the consciousness that thinks
[Sartre]
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7112
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The Cogito depends on a second-order experience, of being conscious of consciousness
[Sartre]
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7119
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Is the Cogito reporting an immediate experience of doubting, or the whole enterprise of doubting?
[Sartre]
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7122
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We can never, even in principle, grasp other minds, because the Ego is self-conceiving
[Sartre]
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7123
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Knowing yourself requires an exterior viewpoint, which is necessarily false
[Sartre]
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7124
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The Ego never appears except when we are not looking for it
[Sartre]
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7121
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The Ego only appears to reflection, so it is cut off from the World
[Sartre]
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7120
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It is theoretically possible that the Ego consists entirely of false memories
[Sartre]
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22225
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My ego is more intimate to me, but not more certain than other egos
[Sartre]
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