transcendental ego
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By enshrining the transcendental ego, the "imperial self."
From Time Magazine Archive
The self, for Professor Cooley, is not a scholastic "soul-substance" or transcendental ego, but simply a relatively differentiated portion of the social mind.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
But one day Kant undermined the soul and brought in the transcendental ego, and ever since then the bipolar relation has been very much off its balance.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William
The transcendental ego seems nowadays in rationalist quarters to stand for everything, in empiricist quarters for almost nothing.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William
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