The Autobiographical Consciousness

By William A Earle

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812961641
• ISBN13: 9780812961645
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Quadrangle Books
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A profound reflection on self and self- consciousness

This is a difficult philosophical book, but I believe a very good one. I originally bought it with the hope that it would teach me something about the writing of autobiography. But that is not its subject. Its subject is the self, and the way it finds and defines itself. Its subject is the 'wisdom' of 'life' and how we come subjectively to know it. Earle makes a key distinction between two different kinds of 'ego' a transient experiential one and a transcendental eternal one. His conception of wisdom if I understand it rightly has to do with their 'unification'. I am not sure I know what this means. I am sure that there is much of value in this work which I did not understand very well. That is to say, I feel that the reader can have a subjective feeling and judgment about a book, a sense of it without necessarily being able to articulate or paraphrase major meaning of the book. Earle writes about the ' self' in relation not only to 'knowledge' but also to 'memory' and ' death '. I would recommend this work highly to anyone who wishes to engage in a philosophical exploration of their own 'consciousness' and its meaning.