ABSTRACT
There are two fundamentally different manners of consideration of the intellect, which rest on differences in standpoint and, as much as they are, in consequence of this fact, contrary to one another, must nevertheless be brought into agreement. The one is the subjective, which, proceeding from within, and taking consciousness as what is given, lays out for the mechanism by which the world displays itself in the latter, and how it is constructed there in from materials provided by senses and understanding. The opposite of this manner of consideration of the intellect is the objective, which proceeds from without, takes as its object not our own consciousness, but rather the beings, given in external experience, that are conscious of themselves and the world, and then investigates what relation their intellect has to their other properties, by which it has become possible, by which it has become necessary, and what it accomplishes for them.
