![To forward the question of “what does it mean” I give you Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s THE VOCATION OF MAN [full text]. He knows about your precious “it”… maybe?
Which of the two options shall I adopt? Am I free and independent, or am I nothing in myself and merely the appearance of an alien force? It has just become clear to me that neither of the two speaks in favour of the first one; and for the second one I take a proposition which is quite true in itself and in its own sphere and extend it beyond its proper scope. If intelligence is a mere expression of nature then it would be quite right to extend that proposition to include it as well, but whether it is such an expression is the question; and this question should be answered by inference from other propositions rather than by presupposing a one-sided answer already at the start of the investigation and then deducing from it what I myself have first put into it. In short, either of the two can work, probably.
..eehh??](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly2v60IU0u1qz6ghlo1_250.jpg)
To forward the question of “what does it mean” I give you Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s THE VOCATION OF MAN [full text]. He knows about your precious “it”… maybe?
Which of the two options shall I adopt? Am I free and independent, or am I nothing in myself and merely the appearance of an alien force? It has just become clear to me that neither of the two speaks in favour of the first one; and for the second one I take a proposition which is quite true in itself and in its own sphere and extend it beyond its proper scope. If intelligence is a mere expression of nature then it would be quite right to extend that proposition to include it as well, but whether it is such an expression is the question; and this question should be answered by inference from other propositions rather than by presupposing a one-sided answer already at the start of the investigation and then deducing from it what I myself have first put into it. In short, either of the two can work, probably.
..eehh??
