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Self-consciousness
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Expressions in Beethoven's music of the primary features of the modern Western idea of self as a spiritual or moral entity, the constitutive autonomy of the self, the possibility of self-transcendence, and the fundamental condition of struggle. Cf. Scott Burnham, Beethoven Hero, p. 113
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Philosophy
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Psychology
 
Transcendence