Sketches for a History of Being as Metaphysics
respect to the will as a faculty of the soul. The will must rather be brought to essential unity with appearance: idea, re-praesentatio, becoming evident, portraying itself, attaining itself, transcending itself, and thus "having itself," and thus "being."
2. The necessity of the system as the constitution of subiectity, that is, of Being as the beingness of beings, lies in the essential constituents of the will understood in this way.
3. The system is a system only as an absolute system.
4. Hence the two characteristics of modern metaphysics' essential completion: (1) the manner in which the concept of philosophy is determined by the absolute system; (2) the manner in which the system is distorted and negated in the most extreme completion of metaphysics by Nietzsche.
OBJECTIVITY-TRANSCENDENCE-UNITY-BEING
(Critique of Pure Reason, section 16)
The system:
Unity-ousia-hen as unity of "standing together" before consciousness and for consciousness.
Standing together determines the essence of unity.
However, unity itself must be determined and questioned in its essence in the question about the truth of Being.
Co-agito, legein, gathering: Hen and Logos.
Together: collected-present.
Standing: constancy.
Representation and letting stand together.
Representation as "certain," certum, as securing.
Certainty as guarantee of stability. System.
Then what does the Kantian "I think" mean?
Something like: I represent something as something, that is, I let something stand together before me. Unity is necessary for standing together and is in essence determined by it.
Unity is the condition (of synthesis and connection); but its
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