Second Lecture

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From what I have presented today, I would like you to see how, precisely from the experience of 19th-century agnosticism, a problem arises in the soul that goes something like this: Is the external world that we perceive through the senses a closed, definitive reality whose meaning we can only seek passively — or is this external reality only one side of true reality? As living human beings, do we ourselves have to help create this reality in the process of cognition?

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