| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 65131 |
| QUOTATION: | The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian philosopher. Notebooks 1914-1916, entry for Sept. 2, 1915, ed. Anscombe (1961).
Wittgenstein reformulated this idea in Tractatus Logico- Philosophicus sct. 5: 641 (1921, trans. 1922): “The philosophical self is not the human being, not the human body, or the human soul with which psychology deals, but rather the metaphysical subject, the limit of the world—not a part of it.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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