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elemental principles of willing, or rather as facts forming 

 parts of some constellation that is foreseen. In this way 

 nature becomes " animated." Later on causality over- 

 shadows the new category at least in so-called science. 

 But can it ever overshadow it in practical life ? Does the 

 materialist really regard his parents and friends and 

 children as mechanical systems ? 



But if there is the way open for a new category carrying 

 in itself its proper intellectual theme, why not formulate as 

 strictly as possible the real science of this category ? 



I hope we have tried already to begin this work. 



& THE CATEGORY " INDIVIDUALITY ' 



Previous Preparatory Work 



In our last lecture, whilst analysing my own acting 

 immediately, we formulated scientifically facts which every 

 human being knows : we showed how the new category is 

 awaked to consciousness by introspective psychology. And 

 in our so-called indirect proofs of vitalism we discovered 

 certain types of constellations of natural phenomena which 

 needed the application of a new category of relation, 

 besides substance and causality, if they were to be under- 

 stood at all. 



What did we actually do in our discussion of the 

 differentiation of the harmonious -equipotential system ? 

 We formulated the problem like a mathematical equation, 

 and by discussing the precise nature of the problem we 

 found the solution. A certain " unknown," our " JE" was 

 introduced as if it was found already, and then we showed 



