I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.

As a philosopher, you define constraints for any good theory explaining what you are interested in, then you go out and search for help in other disciplines.

Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual clarity, and perceived the not-so-revolutionary self-importance in the epigones of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas.

The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself, I think, comes very close to what we traditionally mean by notions like "subjectivity".

I could never understand how someone would embark on their life without having first confronted and clarified the truly fundamental questions.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.