Sentence examples for higher forms of self-consciousness from inspiring English sources

Bermúdez (1998), to mention one further philosopher in the analytic tradition, argues that there are a variety of nonconceptual forms of self-consciousness that are "logically and ontogenetically more primitive than the higher forms of self-consciousness that are usually the focus of philosophical debate" (1998, 274; also see Poellner 2003).

The recognition of the existence of a primitive form of pre-reflective self-consciousness is an important starting point for an understanding of more elaborate forms of self-consciousness that are concept- and language-dependent.

Bermúdez further deployed the notion of autonomous nonconceptual content in exploring primitive nonlinguistic forms of self-consciousness (Bermúdez 1998).

Radical subjectivity refers to the development of a form of self-consciousness that finds present social and economic conditions intolerable.

On the phenomenological view, a minimal form of self-consciousness is a constant structural feature of conscious experience.

(2006).) A somewhat different model comes arguably closer to the form of self-consciousness sought by Brentano, Husserl, and Sartre.

All of this suggests that first-person experience presents me with an immediate and non-observational access to myself, and that (phenomenal) consciousness consequently entails a (minimal) form of self-consciousness.

A third and yet more demanding sense might define conscious creatures as those that are not only aware but also aware that they are aware, thus treating creature consciousness as a form of self-consciousness (Carruthers 2000).

… Kant speculated that the form of self-consciousness that underlies our autonomy may also play a role in the explanation of some of the other distinctively human attributes including culture, romantic love, and the capacity to active from self-interest.

The sole task of philosophy is "the clarification of consciousness," and the highest degree of self-consciousness is achieved by philosophers because they alone recognize "Mind," or "Spirit," as the central principle of reality.

This is particularly in light of the high degree of self-consciousness with which many digital artists and digital art curators specify the features of digital art works.