ABSTRACT
The discussion of the modem sense of the self relevant to the concerns to be discussed here begins with Kant. However, as Taylor I in Sources of the Self notes the recognition of " inwardness" as a category of experience owes its origins, in the first instance, to Augustine and somewhat later to Descartes. Thence, Locke and Hume can be credited with a telling critique of introspective theory, yet one that sought to give an empirical grounding to inwardness; not to deny it. The modem sense of the self, still incorporating an inwardness, arises clearly with Kant in the "Transcendental Deduction" 2 and thence is further articulated in the Critique ofPractical Reasons and later works.
