Beyond the mirror. Towards the question on the conditions of non-reflexive theory of selfconsciousness

• Authors: Ivashchenko Ivan

Title variants

UK

Потойбіч дзеркала: до питання про умови можливості нерефлексійної теорії самосвідомості

• Languages of publication: UK

Abstracts

EN

The subject of the following paper is to consider what is that we know in cases where we know about ourselves. When we are trying to describe ourselves as the result of self-reflection, we must at the same time acknowledge that the self-consciousness should be reached in the second level acts or that the way of access to the self-knowledge runs through the inner sense (inward-glance). The direct consequence of such assumption is the reification of the self-knowledge. In addition to this consequence we cannot explain, on the one hand, meaningful usage of the first-person perspective, and on the other hand, the link between object knowledge and the second level self-knowledge. The following paper argues that with the self-reflection we cannot describe self-consciousness.

Keywords

EN

non-reflexive theory of self-consciousness, anonymous self-acquaintance, singular self-knowledge, non-reflexive self-reference

• Publisher: G.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Journal: Філософська Думка
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 6-29

Contributors

author

Ivashchenko Ivan