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    It is not the case that The self is fundamentally social in character.

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    • 1.Phenomenological analysis reveals a pre-reflective self-awareness that is structurally prior to any social encounter or linguistic formation.
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    • 2.Husserl's transcendental ego and Sartre's pre-reflective cogito demonstrate that the minimal self is constituted through temporal self-givenness, not intersubjectivity.
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    • 3.If the ground of selfhood is non-social, social relations can shape but cannot constitute the self fundamentally.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Locke, Hume, and the Buddhist anattā tradition each identify personal identity through introspective access to experiential continuity, independent of social recognition.
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    • 2.The logical possibility of a cognitively intact self surviving total social isolation—as in Descartes' meditating subject—shows social embeddedness is contingent, not constitutive.
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    • 3.What is contingently formative of a self's character cannot be what is fundamental to its existence as a self.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The self is essentially dependent on thought and other aspects of human mental life.
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    • 2.The self is defined in its specific identity by thought and human mental life.
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    • 3.Thought and human mental life are fundamentally social in character.
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