The thesis of this chapter is that the methodological self is pushed towards a suspension of the epistemological because the telos of such a self is not to be found in the ego as subject, but in the self as opening itself towards the world and things in the world, as they present themselves. For this reason, the methodological self in finding the limits of its capacity rediscovers within its conscious being the power of affectivity. It encounters this above all in reflecting upon fate (fortuna). The material conditions that allowed for the emergence of the methodological self are themselves matters of fate and in the tranquillity of its reflections that self is disturbed by what emerges through its methodological exercises, but which seems to challenge them: in the self-responsibility of its being it recognizes what is constitutive of itself, but for which it cannot claim full responsibility. Furthermore, the self recognizes affectivity as irreducible in its constitutive relations: the feelings of trust, fear, hope, joy, boredom, anxiety all in different ways characterise its mode of being toward itself and other selves. In all of this, the self recognizes the deep prefiguring thoughts, images and ideas to which it attaches itself or shuns without ever fully either becoming one with them or abandoning them. The self thereby recognizes itself as passionate, that is, as already taken up and already subject to what in its origins and its destiny remains foreign to it.