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Ideas for 'Explaining the A Priori', 'Transcendence of the Ego' and 'Mental Content'

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1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology

7113	Phenomenology assumes that all consciousness is of something [Sartre]
	Full Idea: The essential principle of phenomenology is that 'all consciousness is consciousness of something'.
	From: Jean-Paul Sartre (Transcendence of the Ego [1937], I (B))
	A reaction: This idea is found well before Husserl, in Schopenhauer (Idea 4166). It seems to contradict a thought such as Locke's (Idea 1202), that self-awareness is a separate and distinct criterion for personal identity. Sartre gives a nice account.