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Transcendental “I”

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Phenomenology: East and West

Part of the book series: Contributions to Phenomenology ((CTPH,volume 13))

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East was East and West was West but today we are one. Increasingly, inescapably, one planet, one history, one economy, one culture -- the Many in the One. Oneness: the central vision of ancient India.

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  1. J.N.Mohanty, The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, now Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1985).

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  2. Cf. Mohanty, Husserl and Frege (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, 1982), p. 116. Mohanty sees psychologism, in particular, as a “mundanizing” of consciousness, treating it in terms of naturalistic psychology.

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  3. See Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, translated by Colin Smith, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1962; French original published in 1945).

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  4. Cf. Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught (Grove Press, New York, 1959), pp. 20ff, 51ff.

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  5. Cf. Logical Investigations (translated by J.N. Findlay; Rouledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1970; German original, 190001), Third Investigation.

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  6. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays (edited by Larzer Ziff; Penguin Books, New York, 1982); cf. “Self-Reliance” (1841) for a discussion on the True Self, God, and Nature; cf. “The Over-Soul” (1841) for a discussion on God and Soul or Self; and cf. “The Transcendentalist” (1842) for a discussion on Kant and Buddhism.

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Smith, D.W. (1993). Transcendental “I”. In: Kirkland, F.M., Chattopadhyaya, D.P. (eds) Phenomenology: East and West. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1612-1_6

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