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transcendental ego

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noun

  1. (in Kantian epistemology) that part of the self that is the subject and never the object.


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By enshrining the transcendental ego, the "imperial self."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 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)