Excerpt from The Syllogistic Philosophy, Vol. 2 of 2: Or Prolegomena to Science
§ 149. The philosophy of pure experience, as represented by its greatest expositor David Hume, ingenuously confesses its inability to think the I as person or to form a clear concept of personal identity. The philosophy of pure reason or pure thought, as represented by its greatest expositors, Aristotle, Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, has proved its inability to think the I as person, because it surrenders the individual difference in general and the personal difference in particular as unknowable, confounds the specimen with the species, and degrades the personal I to the impersonal It. With Aristotle himself, the Aristotelian Paradox culminates in the imperishable but impersonal vovs, with Kant, in the unknown x, a merely logical subject which may or may not be substance, - with Fichte, in a mere self-returning activity, a self-determining but in itself unconscious subject-object, of which personal selfconsciousness or self-conscious individuality appears as a non-essential and fleeting accident, - with Hegel, in a selfdetermining notion of the notion, in which the I and the We are absolutely indistinguishable and both vanish as a mere "relation" (Verhaltniss) of two contradictory terms.
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