Affinities can be found between Western and Chinese understandings of personhood. The Confucian conception of personhood stems from understanding one's relationship primarily to others, but also one's environment. This experiential understanding of self finds correlation with Western philosophy's definition of empirical, personal identity. Other Western traditions find arguments for a formal, transcendental self that is individual, personal, but the same between individuals. Taoism, similarly, offers a formal definition of the self by recognizing its integration/identity with the Tao, noting the formality and vacuity of this transcendental self. In this paper I propose to demonstrate the parallels between Eastern and Western conceptions of the self, notably Kant's formulation of the empirical self and the transcendental unity of apperception, to Confucian and Taoist traditions. Furthermore, I will apply the Kantian antinomic structure to demonstrate the presuppositions eliciting a debate between the two conceptions of self while suggesting a positive resolution to the antinomy.