Wittgenstein's Conception of the "willing Subject"
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Philosophers, whether phenomenologically or analytically oriented, share an interest in the ontological status of the human self and its relation to the world. Followers of Husserl have attempted to formulate a conception of the self as an embodied consciousness, something between a contingent, empirical ego that is just one phenomenon within the world and a pure transcendental ego that constitutes the world and is the source of its meaning. In Merleau-Ponty's terms:
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