Lecture XV (Nr. 0179)
Facs
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[175] is presupposed, then the relation of a and the b can be determined. Then cis truth about the d--which of course includes the structure of knowing, which is a special part of being; or the structure of history, the structure of all categories, of existence, the essential, and what not. All this is included. But in any case we can sum it all up when we say "The structure of being." The truth of being is truth about our ultimate concern. So we now have two preliminary answers: e is truth about the sf; g is truth about our ultimate concern. Up to this point, the relation seems to be very similar to that between theh and i But there is a difference. There is a point of identity between the truth of faith and jwhich is only indirectly in the scientific realm. There are two ultimates here. The kl question asks the question of ultimate reality and its l, which is in every special reality; and m asks the question of what concerns us ultimately, which certainly ALSO must be ultimately real, otherwise it wouldn’t concern us, ultimately. Only n reality can concern us ultimately. The transitory things cannot concern us ultimately. So we are here in the problem of two o: the philosophical and the theological. In BOTH cases something ULTIMATE is involved: .....in religion we want p about ultimate reality, because it is a matter of ultimate concern; in philosophy we want q about the manifestation of ultimate reality.