The Vocation of Man

of the ground, existence, and reality original: Daseyn und Wirklichkeit. Fichte is distinguishing between "being there" (existence) and "being effective/actual" (reality).. I found their existence to be insufficient for their own existence, and I felt myself compelled, for their own sake, to assume yet another existence outside of them. Why, then, did I find the existence of those qualities or determinations determinations: Bestimmungen, the specific properties or "boundaries" that make a thing what it is insufficient; why did I find it to be an incomplete existence? What might it be in them that betrays a deficiency to me?

This, without a doubt, is it: first of all, those qualities are nothing at all in and for themselves; they are only something in another; qualities of a qualified thing, forms of a formed thing; and such a thing that accepts and bears the quality—a substrate substrate: Substrat, from the Latin substratum, meaning "that which is spread under." In philosophy, it refers to the underlying substance that remains the same while its properties change of the same, according to the expression of the schools original: Ausdrucke der Schule. Fichte refers here to the traditional academic language of Scholastic and Kantian philosophy taught in universities.—is always presupposed for their conceivability. Furthermore, that such a substrate should have a specific quality expresses a state of rest, and a standstill of its transformations, a halting of its becoming becoming: Werden, the fluid process of change and development, as opposed to a fixed state of being. If I place it in trans-