This paper is an attempt to see the similarity between the Shankara’s notion of Ätman and Husserl’s Transcendental Ego. Both thinkers, Husserl and Shankara trace true knowledge to the transcendental self. The former describes the self as the embodiment of absolute knowledge that transcends the limitations of the body, the senses and the intellect. In the state of bondage and ignorance, this Transcendental Ego is oblivious of its ontological and cognitive priority or transcendence and seeks knowledge in the natural world of relative truths. It forgets that this world is merely an appearance (vivarta) rooted in the Ᾱtman which is identical with Brahman

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关于尚卡拉，胡塞尔和先验自我的一些观察

本文试图看到山卡拉的阿特曼概念与胡塞尔的先验自我之间的相似性。胡塞尔和尚卡拉这两个思想家都将真正的知识追溯到先验的自我。前者将自我描述为超越身体，感官和智力局限性的绝对知识的体现。在束缚和无知的状态下，先验的自我忽略了本体论和认知上的优先或超越，并在自然界中寻求相对真理的知识。它忘记了这个世界仅仅是植根于“婆罗门”的外表（vivarta），与婆罗门一样