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Their preservation according to their free-standing existence appearing in the form of contingency is history, but according to their conceptually grasped organization, it is the science of phenomenal knowing. Both together are conceptually grasped history; they form the recollection and the Golgotha of absolute spirit, the actuality, the truth, the certainty of its throne, without which it would be lifeless and alone. (Ibid) This is history and the science of knowledge, which mutually create “conceptually grasped history,” (Ibid) that is,"Er-innerung”. This history is the history of self-consciousness, some of whose phenomenological aspects it traces all along. In this, the recurring similarities between the thoughts of Hegel (The Phenomenology of Spirit) and Schelling (System of Transcendental Idealism) indicate a genetic relationship, despite the differences that appear at certain levels in their respect work, regardless of the later hostility between the two college roommates. The intellectual intuition is that which brings unity (“in which producer and product are one and the same”) (Schelling 1993. p-27). The other perspective besides it is the productive intuition. The productive perspective does not consider the “I” merely as a perceiver but also as a creator, because, as Schelling puts it, “every other science presupposes the intelligence as already complete, the philosopher observes it in its genesis, and brings it into being, so to speak, before his eyes.” (Schelling 1993. p.73.). Thus, intelligence is not something we receive in a finished state (intelligence is not given at birth—though I do not think I needed to spell that out), but something that must be created, in relation to the world to be precise. This confrontation is a dynamic state, a struggle that really has no end. The essence of the struggle is that the “I” is in continuous “expansion” and “contraction” and is transformed into intelligence as a result of the forces engaged in this struggle inside it. Thus, inside the “I” different forces strain against one another; one strives for limitlessness, for infinity, while the other wants to limit, to restrict to finiteness. One power wants to be part
