Sentence examples for thinking subject from inspiring English sources

More straightforwardly, Kant states that a metaphysics of the soul is generated by the demand for the "absolute (unconditioned) unity of the thinking subject itself" (A334/B391).

"The Nature of thinking consists in reflecting", he states in thesis 1, "that is, in the act by which the thinking subject differentiates itself from its thought" (im Unterscheiden des Denkenden vom Gedachten).

(One application of this idea is found in the Transcendental Dialectic of the first Critique, where Kant insists that there are only three transcendental ideas the thinking subject, the world as a whole, and a being of all beings—so that it is possible to catalogue exhaustively the illusions to which reason is subject).

In other words, logical thinking is accompanied essentially by a feeling of the thinking subject's freedom in thinking.

Dasein's practical involvements and commitments, therefore, are ontologically more basic than the thinking subject and all other Cartesian abstractions.

Art has become a thinking subject, it seems, as opposed to the purely practical option it was in my day.

These forms, being one with Intellect and therefore with each other, are not merely objects but are living, thinking subjects, each not only itself but, in its contemplation, the whole.

As free, thinking subjects, persons also exercise creativity through their thought, imagination, and action, a creativity which affects both the surrounding world and the person himself.

He aimed to show that this view of the nature of reason is mistaken, that reason is one and the same in all thinking subjects, that it is universal and infinite, and that thinking (Denken) is not an activity performed by the individual, but rather by "the species" acting through the individual.

Ardent Cuba-supporters' tirades against Cubans who publicly expresses criticism of the Cuban Revolution not only mirror the repressive tactics the Cuban government uses to discredit its internal opposition, but also deny Cubans agency as thinking subjects.

In the transcendental ego he laid down such a principle: Being aware of ourselves as thinking subjects we know the subject as being a unified and unique whole (the 'same') in all of its different perceptions or thoughts: "The I think must be able to accompany all my representations" [ 3], §16, B 131.