Erkenntnis, Selbsterkenntnis, Denken

The chapter divides into three sections. The first is about knowledge and deals with the cognitive activities of both the Intellect and the soul. It stresses the difference in their way of grasping the truth. The second is about thinking and discusses its two forms, intuitive and discursive. It also draws attention to the problem whether the intuitive thinking in the Intellect can have a propositional form. The third is about self-knowledge, the highest form of knowledge, which implies knowledge of the true self. It emphasizes that this kind of knowledge has no individual character whatsoever.