Ongoing Translation
Idealistically motivated
Natural inclination
Opaque activity
Within the unconscious nature of the self’s activity lies an essential ambiguity which cannot be completely articulated or conceptually resolved. Schelling supports this position, as he claims the unconsciousness act is never realized definitively and exhaustively in any conscious awareness, but rather is the life and source of the whole system of finitude.
“Intelligence and instinct are forms of consciousness which must have interpenetrated each other in their rudimentary state and become dissociated as they grew.” – Henri Bergson