transcendental ego

== English == === Alternative forms === transcendental Ego Transcendental Ego === Noun === transcendental ego (plural transcendental egos) (philosophy, phenomenology, Kantianism) The conscious self which is the unifying subject of a person's experiences and which cannot itself be experienced as an object, understood by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) as knowable only by inference, and understood by Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) as pure consciousness. ==== Synonyms ==== non-empirical ego pure ego === See also === empirical ego === References === "transcendental ego" at Encyclopedia Britannica Online, © 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. "Ego, Pure," by Ledger Wood, in Dictionary of Philosophy, Dagobert D. Runes (ed.), Philosophical Library, 1962, p. 88.