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The Shift to the Subject in Modern Thought

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The history of philosophy is the record of an arduous and diligent search for knowledge of reality. Not only is it a diligent search, but it is a continuous attempt to reconcile being and thought about being.1 The depth of this search can be measured by the boldness of the craving with which thought seeks to represent in itself what lies outside of itself. But the deeper our thought penetrates reality, the more vehement is the opposition between subjectivity and objectivity and the more difficult becomes their reconciliation. The conflict between objectivity as externality and subjectivity as immanent consciousness has provided a fundamental problem in the unfolding of modern thought.2

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