transcendental ego

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

“Though he does not look it. He has had bowel cancer and now he has liver cancer. I painted this in May. He is having chemo still and tests for which we always hold our breath. Psychologically he is very strong, reading madly, thinking about the transcendental ego. His morale is tremendously good.”

From The Guardian

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 Project Gutenberg

If there be in existence an inscrutable ‘transcendental Ego,’ eternally screened from my ken by this self-asserting ‘empirical Ego,’ I confess I feel very little interest in the nature or the welfare of the former.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg