The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 205 of 254

Husserl: the ego constitutes itself in a history

Husserl wrote: ‘The ego constitutes himself for himself in, so to speak, the unity of a history,’ and ‘Since, by his own active generating, the Ego constitutes himself as identical substrate of Ego properties, he constitutes himself also as a “fixed and abiding” personal Ego.’

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