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Transsubjectivity

Author(s) -

David Hitchcock

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

informal logic

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2293-734X

pISSN - 0824-2577

DOI - 10.22329/il.v37i3.4691

Subject(s) - subjectivity , argumentation theory , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , meaning (existential) , id, ego and super ego , sociology , psychology , philosophy , social psychology , chemistry , biochemistry

I describe and evaluate Harald Wohlrapp’s proposal in The Concept of Argument that we should see reasonable argumentation as guided by the “principle of transsubjectivity ... that, beginning with my subjectivity, I put my actual ego up for consideration as well as heighten and transcend it by seeking to participate in a general human potential, which is only attainable by recognizing the subjectivity of the Other”, and thus as having a quasi-religious meaning.

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