Subject, Person, Self

Bartłomiej Skowron

Subject, Person, Self

Bartłomiej Skowron

Pages 525 - 528

The subject (Latin subiectum) is that which encounters the object (Latin obiectum), or equivalently it is what can be referred to the object. An object is anything to which some reference could be made. It is everything that is thrown ‘in front of’, or ‘opposite of’, the subject. Thus, every subject in this sense can be an object, because we can refer to it. However, the subject moves, grows, thinks, feels, sees, calculates, loves, etc. Therefore the subject in its ontological form, as phenomenologists used to say, is the fulfiller of acts.

¹International Center for Formal Ontology, Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences, Warsaw University of Technology

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