Sublime

Lessing is really saying that when it comes to truth, our job is to cultivate the art of interpretation, which is what philosophers nowadays call hermeneutics.

It presumes and mirrors one of the fundamental dichotomies that characterizes the Western rationalist world view ‒ that between thought and things.

Sie stürzten sich meist auf den Umstand, dass sich, je weiter man ins Reich des Allerkleinsten vorstößt, immer weniger ein objektives Bild der ganzen Realität zeichnen lässt.

In order to develop a good question to write about or find the best angle for an assignment, one must already have put some thought into a topic. To be able to decide on a topic, one must already have read quite a bit and certainly not just about one topic. And the decision to read something and not something else is obviously rooted in prior under

CHARACTER.

Merleau-Ponty,

His example wasn’t an intellectual but an ethical one.