Five Card Story: Immanuel Kant"We Construct the Self"

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1st Picture -This shows the Imperical ego of a person. This is the "you" that other people see and interact with. It's the part of you that acts and behaves in the world, and it's observable by others.

2nd Picture -This shows the transendental Ego of a person. This is the "you" that thinks, Self reflects, and makes sense of the world. Kant believed this inner self is responsible for giving unity and coherence to all your thoughts and experiences.

3rd Picture -Shows that it is the self that
makes experiencing an intelligible world possible because it is the self that actively organizing and synthesizing all of our thoughts and perceptions.

4th Picture -The self transcends experience because the mind can grasp aspects of reality which are not limited to the scenes. Through rationality, people are able to understand certain abstract ideas that have no corresponding physical object or sensory experience.

5th Picture -According to him, we all have an inner and an outer self which together form our consciousness.

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