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Subject and object (philosophy)
Overview
philosophy terms referring to an observer versus the thing observed
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The mental act in which self is known, implies, like every other mental act, a perceiving subject and a perceived object. If, then, the object perceived is self, what is the subject that perceives? or if it is the true self which thinks, what other self can it be that is thought of? Clearly, a true cognition of self implies a state in which the knowing and the known are one—in which subject and object are…
Herbert Spencer, First Principles
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We find the value of _x_ in terms of _y_; then we find the value of _y_ in terms of _x_; and so on we may continue forever without coming nearer to a solution. The antithesis of subject and object, never to be transcended while consciousness lasts, renders impossible all knowledge of that Ultimate Reality in which subject and object are united."[40]
Herbert Spencer, Essays
States what Subject and object is; names Subject and object twice.
A bundle of this latter sort, at a given time, is called a "perspective"; taken throughout a period of time, it is called a "biography." Subjectivity is the characteristic of perspectives and biographies, the characteristic of giving the view of the world from a certain place. We saw in Lecture VII that this characteristic involves none of the other characteristics that are commonly associated with mental phenomena…
Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind
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Philosophers who discussed Subject and object (philosophy)
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Avicenna
- Gilles Deleuze
- Immanuel Kant
- Judith Butler
- Slavoj Žižek
- Karl Marx
- Eduard Zeller
- René Descartes
- Paul Tillich
- György Lukács
- Antonio Gramsci
- Philipp Mainländer
- Alain Badiou
- Louis Althusser
- Franz Brentano
- Samuel Alexander
- Edmund Husserl
- Huw Price
- Utpaladeva
- Gilbert Simondon
- Julius Bahnsen
- Wataru Hiromatsu
Related ideas
- What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
- Belief
- Cognition
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Mind–body problem
- Philosophy of physics
- Gilles Deleuze
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Power (social and political)
- Jacques Lacan
- Karl Marx
- Mind–body dualism
- Latin
- Metaphysics
- Thomas Nagel
- Liberalism
- Mind
- Reference
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Social constructionism
- Qualia
- German idealism
Opposing perspectives
- Noumenon
- Philosophy
- Individualism
- Idea
- Subjective character of experience
- Mind–body problem
- Philosophy of mind
- Thing-in-itself
- Ethical egoism
- Animal consciousness
- Reality testing
- Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.
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