Anstoss


(in the philosophy of Fichte) any of the six successive steps by which the absolute ego attains self-knowledge.
Historical Examples

Now, this op-positing of the anstoss is the necessary condition of the practical ego, of the will.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 Various

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