Sentence examples for subject of experiences from inspiring English sources
Imagine, for instance, a subject of experiences to whom various experiences merely happened over time.
One has unified consciousness of self when one is conscious of oneself as the single common subject of experiences of many items in many acts of experiencing.
The events would be unified in a purely passive respect, simply as the experiences contained within the life of that subject of experiences.
Another way to put this point is that one can't be a person, on the narrative view, unless one gathers up the various experiences one has as a subject of experiences into a coherent narrative, but then the identity of that subject of experiences must be preserved across time for its experiences to be so gathered up.
Naive hedonists often had no developed view of the relation between the subject of experience and the experience of pleasure.
Given that there is no unified substratum constituting the self there is also no necessity for something to be essentially a subject of experience.
Similarly, by denying that there is an ego or persisting subject of experience, Hume (1739) was arguably an eliminativist about the self.
(1) If we restrict ourselves to a single subject of experience, the lifeworld can be looked upon as the rational structure underlying his (or her) "natural attitude".
Since Schopenhauer assumes that the quality of the subject of experience must correspond to the quality of the object of experience, he infers that in the state of aesthetic perception, where the objects are universal, the subject of experience must likewise assume a universal quality (WWR, Section 33).
The aesthetic stage of existence is characterized by the following: immersion in sensuous experience; valorization of possibility over actuality; egotism; fragmentation of the subject of experience; nihilistic wielding of irony and scepticism; and flight from boredom.
And on a neoBuddhist or neoHumean view that requires no subject beyond particular experiences, even an isolated experience of the right kind might unproblematically be pleasure on its own, however unowned by any continuant subject of experience.
