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User:VargasMilan/I and Thou/Part 1 (view source)
Revision as of 14:07, July 22, 2019
, 14:07, July 22, 2019+ sect. 24
But when the ''I'' of the relation has stepped forth and taken on separate existence, it also moves, strangely tenuous and reduced to merely functional activity, into the natural, actual event of the separation of the body from the world round about it, and awakens there the state in which ''I'' is properly active. Only now can the conscious act of the ''I'' take place. This act is the first form of the primary word ''I-It'', of the experience in its relation to ''I''. The ''I'' which stepped forth declares itself to be the bearer, and the world round about to be the object, of the perceptions. Of course, this happens in a "primitive" form and not in the form of a "theory of knowledge." But whenever the sentence "I see the tree" is so uttered that it no longer tells of a relation between the man—''I''—and the tree—''Thou''—, but establishes the perception of the tree as object by the human consciousness, the barrier between subject and object has been set up. The primary word ''I-It'', the word of separation, has been spoken.
But when the ''I'' of the relation has stepped forth and taken on separate existence, it also moves, strangely tenuous and reduced to merely functional activity, into the natural, actual event of the separation of the body from the world round about it, and awakens there the state in which ''I'' is properly active. Only now can the conscious act of the ''I'' take place. This act is the first form of the primary word ''I-It'', of the experience in its relation to ''I''. The ''I'' which stepped forth declares itself to be the bearer, and the world round about to be the object, of the perceptions. Of course, this happens in a "primitive" form and not in the form of a "theory of knowledge." But whenever the sentence "I see the tree" is so uttered that it no longer tells of a relation between the man—''I''—and the tree—''Thou''—, but establishes the perception of the tree as object by the human consciousness, the barrier between subject and object has been set up. The primary word ''I-It'', the word of separation, has been spoken.
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—T{{sc|hat melancholy of our fate}}, then, arose in earliest history?
—Indeed, yes—in so far as the conscious life of man arose in earliest history. But conscious life means the return of cosmic being as human becoming. Spirit appears in time as a product—even as a by-product of nature, yet it is in spirit that nature is timelessly enveloped.
The opposition of the two primary words has many names at different times and in different worlds; but in its nameless truth it is inherent in creation.