The Vocation of Man

undoubtedly be found unintelligible.

It was intended to attract and warm, and to powerfully sweep the reader away from the world of the senses original: Sinnlichkeit; in Fichte's philosophy, this refers to our physical experiences and perceptions of the material world. toward the supersensible original: Uebersinnlichen; that which exists beyond physical perception, such as moral truths, the soul, or the spiritual realm.; at least the author original: Verfasser is conscious of having set to work with no small amount of enthusiasm original: Begeisterung; this term implies a sense of divine or intellectual inspiration.. Often, during the labor of execution, the fire with which one first grasped the purpose vanishes; conversely, immediately after finishing the work, one is in danger of being too self-critical on this point. In short, whether this intention has succeeded or not can only be decided by the effect the writing has on the readers for whom it is intended, and the author original: Autor has no say in this matter.

I must also remind—though only for the benefit of a few—that the I original: das Ich; the first-person narrator. Fichte is clarifying that the book is a philosophical journey of a generic human consciousness, a "representative self," rather than his own personal autobiography. who speaks in the book is by no means the author himself, but—