The Bodily Nature of Consciousness

From: Behavior and Philosophy | Date: October 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Sartre believed that "all consciousness is self-consciousness." In Being and Nothingness he attempted to show the truth of this assertion. His phenomenological analysis of consciousness distinguishes among several types of consciousness-for example, reflective and prereflective, pure and impure-and explores the ways each of these types is essentially reflexive. His analysis exposes what appear to involve contradictions in the nature of consciousness; he attempts to resolve these with the help of the well-known claim that consciousness is in itself a "nothingness."

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