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Notes regarding WdW I, 10b 1. Corresponds to NC I, 8. 2. Meaning is "from, through and to" the Origin. It is not just that we receive meaning from the Origin. Created meaning refers to the Origin, and we find no rest except in the Origin. Our thought is also from and towards an Origin, whether our true Origin, or our supposed self-sufficient origin. See van Eeden, who says that God is our goal and direction, but also our Origin [Redekunstige Grondlsag, 117 #156] 3. Ground-tendency (motive to return). There is a built-in propensity or tendency to return to the Origin. Van Eeden named this tendency towards God as "love." Love is the uniting of that which is divided, the breaking through of limitation. this tendency he sees intuitively as the meaning of all words. [Johannes Viator] 4. The law "limits and determines" our selfhood. We act out of our supratemporal selfhood. But our selfhood expresses itself in temporal functions. These functions are given by the law, which limits and determines temporal reality. It also limits and determines our selfhood. I interpret this as the relating of our supratemporal selfhood to temporal reality, and to our individualizing within that temporal reality. 5. Insight into meaning presupposes a relatedness to our selfhood. Insight is an inner-directed thought. |
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