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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. |