Both volumes of this work have as their central concern to sort out who one is from what one is. In this Book 1, the focus is on transcendentalphenomenological ontology. When we refer to ourselves we refer both nonascriptively in regard to nonpropertied as well as ascriptively in regard to propertied aspects of ourselves. The latter is the richness of our personal being the former is the essentially elusive central concern of this Book 1 I can be aware of myself and refer to myself without it being necessary to think of any thirdpersonal characteristic indeed one may be aware of oneself without having to be aware of anything except oneself. This consideration opens the door to basic issues in phenomenological ontology, such as identity, individuation, and substance. In our knowledge and love of Others we find symmetry with the firstperson selfknowledge, both in its nonascriptive forms as well as in its propertyascribing forms. Love properly has for its referent the Other as present through but beyond her properties. Transcendentalphenomenological reflections move us to consider paradoxes of the "transcendental person". For example, we contend with the unpresentability in the transcendental firstperson of our beginning or ending and the undeniable evidence for the beginning and ending of persons in our thirdperson experience. The basic distinction between oneself as nonsortal and as a person pervaded by properties serves as a hinge for reflecting on "the afterlife". This...

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