摘要
In the philosophy of mind, the essential qualities of self and selfhood have been discussed widely. According to Zahavi （2015, 149）, ＂the notion of an experiential self is the precondition of any plausible account of intersubjectivity.＂ In Zahavi （2015）, he elaborates two influential views on selfhood and offers a phenomenological perspective from which he argues that selfhood is both a built-in feature of experience and socially constructed. In the following paper, we would further investigate the essential qualities of self in the line with Zahavi （2015） and provide a complementary quality of self from a phenomenological view, namely, the predictability of the expressive phenomena of subjects. We would also explore the intersubjective relationship between others and self and discuss the sharing phenomenon of empathy.
