Not me
The term not-I is used as a specialist philosophical term, especially in the subject philosophy of German idealism . With Johann Gottlieb Fichte , for example, it describes the totality of everything that is different from the pure, original self. The not-ego includes not only the sum of all spatial objects, but also e.g. B. also the empirical ego insofar as it is already an objectified form of the original ego. According to Fichte, the non-ego goes back to an original positing of the pure ego and, in contrast to it, is divisible.
The non-ego is also in the existential philosophy of Karl Jaspers important: there are the I and the non-ego. The not-self is on the one hand the other, which is perceived as "the outside", on the other hand the other self:
"The ego knows the non-ego as the alien being of matter and as the related being of the other ego."
literature
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Basis of the entire science theory; Jena 1794/95 ; ed. by Reinhard Lauth and Hans Jacob, Complete Edition of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume I / 2, frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart 1965.
- Ulrich Schwabe: Individual and Trans-Individual I. The self-individualization of pure subjectivity and Fichte's theory of science. With a continuous commentary on the science teaching nova methodo , Paderborn et al. 2007.
Web links
- Rudolf Eisler : Art. I , in: Dictionary of philosophical terms (1904).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Jaspers: Philosophical world orientation. Berlin 1932, p. 61.