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In this paper an attempt is made to understand transcendentalism as a philosophy of the self with regard to the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. The transcendental self is not a thing among things or states of affairs to be described as such. It has a dual identity as mundane and extra-worldly, empirical and transcendental. In that setting its ontological status deserves attention. It is understood neither in terms of idealism nor realism, but as onto-phenomenological.
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Ghosh, M. (2011). Understanding Transcendentalism as a Philosophy of the Self. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Transcendentalism Overturned. Analecta Husserliana, vol 108. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0624-8_32
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