It is the empirical ego that distinguishes one person from another providing each with a definite character.
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Kant contrasts the transcendental ego to the empirical ego, the active individual self subject to immediate introspection.
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Royce wrote : " In origin, then, the empirical Ego is secondary to our social experiences.
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However, once the realization arises that puruc a is distinct from prak [ ti, is more than empirical ego, and that puruc a is deepest conscious self within, the Self gains isolation ( " kaivalya " ) and freedom ( " moksha " ).
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While for Husserl we would have to abstract from all concrete determinations of our empirical ego, to be able to turn to the field of pure consciousness, Heidegger claims that " the possibilities and destinies of philosophy are bound up with man's existence, and thus with temporality and with historicality ."
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Vcaspati Mi [ ra explains that it is " ahamkra " ( empirical ego ) which presides over the objects intuited by the sense-organs and then definitely perceived by the mind; and that the sense-organ intuits the object, " manas " reflects on it, " ahamkra " appropriates it and finally " buddhi " ( intellect ) resolves which way the intended action must proceed.
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