Home – Home – Jornals – Philosophy of Sciences 2023 number 3

Every person has a sense of his uniqueness - a sense of self. This sovereign self is the center of conscious life that ensures the unity of the personality. The desire to solve the mystery of this unity of identity and difference, rest and movement should sooner or later result in the creation of the science of egology which studies the structures of pure consciousness. Explicitly, the idea of egology was first introduced in Husserl’s later works. However, implicitly this idea has ancient origins. Given the antiquity of the egological tradition, I limit myself in this article to the formulation of the idea of egology in Husserl’s philosophy and its perception in the follow-up phenomenological movement. Along with positive arguments, the article also presents the arguments of those who sincerely expressed doubts and objections or quite rejected the possibility of a pure self, and hence the science which deals with it.