Kant and the pre-reflective self-consciousness

The aim of this paper is to focus on certain characterizations of “I think” and the “transcendental apperception” in an attempt to verify a connection with certain characterizations of the so-called pre-reflective self-consciousness introduced by the phenomenological literature. According to this account, every self-ascription of any property implies a more fundamental form of self-consciousness, i.e., a kind of immediate familiarity with oneself. This pre-reflective self-consciousness is a non-relational, non-identificational form of self-consciousness and concerns an immediate acquaintance of the subject with itself.