human
p. 84) that the truth of criticism is the final truth, and in fact the truth sought for by Christianity itself,--to wit,
gpt
Man. He says,
human
The history of the Christian world is the history of the supreme fight for truth, for in it--and in it only!--the thing at issue is the discovery of the final or the primal truth--man and freedom.
gpt
till they give up the separate essence which parts them and obligates them to eternal separation, recognize the general essence of
human
Man, and regard this as their
gpt
instead of only being men and endeavoring after what is human,--to wit, the
human
He thinks their fundamental error consists in the belief that they are
gpt
possess
human
or, as it ought more correctly to be called,--anthropocracy. But it is I alone who have everything that I--procure for myself; as man I have nothing. People would like to give every man an affluence of all good, merely because he has the title
gpt
? That is not given to all, and many a one would therein be fixing for herself an unattainable goal. _Feminine_, on the other hand, she is anyhow, by nature; femininity is her quality, and she does not need
human
I am a man just as the earth is a star. As ridiculous as it would be to set the earth the task of being a
gpt
so ridiculous it is to burden me with the call to be a
human
The ego is all, this seems to harmonize perfectly with my theses. But it is not that the ego _is_ all, but the ego _destroys_ all, and only the self-dissolving ego, the never-being ego, the--_finite_ ego is really I. Fichte speaks of the
gpt
is to designate the absolute ego, the _species_, not the transitory, individual ego. Egoism and humanity (humaneness) ought to mean the same, but according to Feuerbach the individual can
human
[125] But the species is nothing, and, if the individual lifts himself above the limits of his individuality, this is rather his very self as an individual; he exists only in raising himself, he exists only in not remaining what he is; otherwise he would be done, dead. Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of. To be _a_ man is not to realize the ideal of _Man_, but to present _oneself_, the individual. It is not how I realize the _generally human_ that needs to be my task, but how I satisfy myself. _I_ am my species, am without norm, without law, without model, and the like. It is possible that I can make very little out of myself; but this little is everything, and is better than what I allow to be made out of me by the might of others, by the training of custom, religion, the laws, the State, etc. Better--if the talk is to be of better at all--better an unmannerly child than an old head on young shoulders, better a mulish man than a man compliant in everything. The unmannerly and mulish fellow is still on the way to form himself according to his own will; the prematurely knowing and compliant one is determined by the
gpt
the general demands, etc.,--the species is law to him. He is _determined_[126] by it; for what else is the species to him but his
human
[127] his
gpt
? Whether I look to