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Having stated the intent of this volume, to arrive at a bimodal theory of transcendence and its application to man’s search for wholeness, I will still insist, for sake of clarity and simplicity, to use Self-1 and Self-2 as the two terms of the self in conversation with itself. Self-1 is positive transcendence, quite reliable since the self has directional awareness and control of this awareness. Self-2 is negative transcendence, quite unreliable but free as a separate awareness having no attachments to Self-1. The self will manifest the unity of its being but it will be bimodal in its behavior. We assume, of course, that human awareness is broader than the ego’s control of transcendence. But it’s also true that a broadened self- awareness or even a total human awareness may not necessarily be a human awareness.
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John Hurrell Crook, The Evolution of Human Consciousness ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980 ), p. 336.
Roger Hazelton, ‘Relocating Transcendence,’ Union Seminary Quarterly Review (Winter-Summer, 1975 ), p. 109.
Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy ( New York: Doubleday Anchor Book, 1969 ), p. 83.
Gorgy Lukacs, History and Class Consciousness, trans. R. Livingstone (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1972), p. xxiv.
Maurice Natanson, Literature, Philosophy and the Social Sciences ( The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962), p. 167.
Maurice Natanson, Phenomenology, Role, and Reason ( Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1974 ), p. 11.
Cf. my article in Philosophy Today, Winter 1975, on ‘Self-transcending Totalizations of Sartre.’ Here, I develop the charge of RST against some of Sartre’s basic doctrines. This particular issue of Philosophy Today is dedicated to Sartre on his 70th birthday. Some of these charges are also applicable to Natanson’s perspective.
Peter L. Berger, A Rumor of Angels ( New York: Doubleday, 1970 ), pp. 52–3.
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Horosz, W. (1987). Reification and the birth of totalities. In: Search Without Idols. Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3493-1_2
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