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Selflessness in the Light of the Normative Nature of Mental Acts: European Philosophy, Phenomenology and Buddhism
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24.09.2018
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2018
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10.31857/S004287440000238-6
Selflessness in the Light of the Normative Nature of Mental Acts: European Philosophy, Phenomenology and Buddhism
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The present paper is devoted to the analysis of the normative nature of mental acts. Prohibitions and obligations to do anything precede the ordinary intentional acts of the perception and constructing of objects. In the human society norms and regulations rule any cognitive processes and provide the basis for any rational activity. The existence of an agent, his or her uniqueness as well as the existence of the other mind is not necessary for the realization of norms within an intentional system. The construction of a normative dimension of consciousness becomes the task of phenomenology. European philosophers separate the study of the rulefollowing personal activity from the research of objective impersonal processes aimed at executing commands. Buddhist philosophy, in its attempt to snuff out the permanent subject, meets thus certain epistemological settings of European philosophy, of phenomenology in particular. The paper will also dwell on a comparison of some basic approaches of European philosophy to the study of consciousness with the Buddhist tradition. It will show that, together with different attitudes to the problem of the existence of the pure self, there is a great deal of agreement between European philosophy (phenomenology) and Buddhism regarding normativity as a fundamental condition of the activity of the human consciousness.

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Svetlana Kuskova
Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis
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