Interpretation Of Sartre's Pre-flective Cogito

Pre-flective cogito is the sphere of Sartre's consciousness ontology and the foundation of his philosophy on freedom.Undstanding pre-flective cogito in exact terms is unquestionably important to comprehend system of Sartre's philosophy rightly.But academic circles have very different comprehension to pre-flective cogito: some advocate that it is only self-consciousness, and some think it's just object-consciousness. This text hold that it includes self-consciousness and object-consciousness,and it's precise meaning is self-consciousness and object-consciousness which two are together as one.It has three basic features: the identity of appearance and existence, non-subject-opposing-object, being-in-the-world.This thesis is arguing on the ground of Sartre's original work. Firstly, following the development of Sartre's thoughts on pre-flective cogito, we analyze the texts which have something to do with it. We show clearly the quality of being-together-as-one and non-substance of self-consciousness and object-consciousness, and reach the preliminary conclusion of the limits and precise meaning of pre-flective cogito. Secondly, we place the conclusion in the systematic expositions of Sartre's consciousness ontology to test it. In examining, we draw out intentionality as transcendence by questioning the basis of the quality of being-together-as-one of self-consciousness and object-consciousness. Then by inquiring the foundation of transcendence, we pull out nothingness as limitation. So we delineate the whole of limitation and transcendence as ontological structure of being-for-self. Simultaneously, we clarify thoroughly the grounds of the quality of being-together-as-one and non-substance of self-consciousness and object-consciousness, and verify the preliminary conclusion of the limits and precise meaning of pre-flective cogito.Although it has theoretical profundity and aims at reality , Sartre's consciousness ontology which set pre-flective cogito as it's center has many defects, and faces a lot of difficulties and challenges.