Abstract

1. I would have said that there is no problem of reconciling the ‘phenomenological’ and ‘analytical’ approaches to the problem of the ego or the person. It is, in part, by doing ‘phenomenology’ that we collect the data for our problem; and it is, in part, by doing ‘philosophical analysis’ that we decide what philosophical significance our data may happen to have. Phenomenology alone, I would have said, cannot supply us with any philosophical conclusions and we cannot be analysts until we have found something to analyze.