ABSTRACT
The implicit emphasis of self-relation as science of science began with Fichte in his 'Vocation of Man' as self-conscious: Thou see, thou hearest, thou feelest; also thou thinkest. If self-relation were the first principle it should seem that men, who have somehow the good fortune to live, would only voluntarily die. It will be seen in a criticism of 'truth' that the baffling obduracy of the philosophical problem lies in the coincident necessity and impossibility of self-relation. The divine Greek, in Kant's 'Charmides', treated the problem of self-relation as it is involved in the proposition of a science of science, or popularly, self-consciousness. The process of self-consciousness has just to be transferred to the All, the Absolute, the Substance, to enable us to form a conception of unal negativity of Spirit passing into the alienation of external nature, finally to return reconciled, harmonious, and free into its own self'.
