Open AccessTranssubjectivity
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.