Self-Existence Consciousness and Self-Value Consciousness: A Phenomenological Description
摘要
Through a phenomenological description of what it is like to have self-consciousness, a thesis will be based. The self-existence consciousness lets me become conscious for me in a way, to which necessary characteristics it belongs that I have a value for me. This correlation a priori is based on the fact that there are different ways how the contingency of a thing can be experienced. Since it can be shown that I must be contingent for myself in the same way that a valuable object is contingent for me, my self-existence consciousness must always be accompanied by self-value consciousness.