In Defence of Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness: The Heidelberg View

Abstract In the 1960s, a school formed in Heidelberg around Dieter Henrich that criticized—with reference to J. G. Fichte—the ‘reflection model’ of self-consciousness according which consists representational relation between two mental states or self-representation state. I present new “Heidelberg perspective” pre-reflective self-consciousness. According this approach, occurs varieties regularly are not sufficiently distinguished: The first variety is egological exists connection with use concepts. It consciousness having an awareness oneself as Ego conscious second anonymous self-consciousness, but does contain information. exhibit subject-object structure and thus cannot be appropriately determined representation, self-representation, even acquaintance relation. Rather, characterized by indistinction subject object. However, basis