empirical ego

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Definition of empirical ego in English English dictionary

In the thought of Immanuel Kant and Edmund Husserl, the self of each person, understood as the locus of personality and capable of being known as an object by means of reflective awareness, in contrast with the transcendental ego which is always an experiencing subject

The empirical ego is an object in the world, and, insofar as it is experienced and known, it must be subject to worldly causality.

Related Terms

non-empirical ego

Alternative name of transcendental ego

Hyphenation

em·pi·ri·cal e·go

Turkish pronunciation

empîrîkıl igō

Pronunciation

/ˌemˈpərəkəl ˈēgō/ /ˌɛmˈpɪrɪkəl ˈiːɡoʊ/