Maine de Biran's 'Of Immediate Apperception'

Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical maturity, in 1807, ''Of Immediate Apperception'' was the first complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the winning entry to a competition organised by the Berlin Académie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres on the subject of self-awareness and of the possibility of an ''immediate apperception'' of the self. It contains t...