System of Ideal

Philosophy as a science therefore has the task of not only itself providing exemplary concepts (conceptual patterns), but such To create concepts that can serve as a model for philosophy as art in its approach to things (model concepts). The former need a model that they have to conform to as a model; these, on the other hand, are themselves models to which things are supposed to correspond. The task of philosophy as a science, to arrive at exemplary concepts, will therefore be above all to produce the model that the concepts must conform to in order to be considered exemplary. The task of philosophy as art to realize model concepts will be, in addition to the obligation to make the concepts recognized as model concepts by philosophy as a science its model concepts, above all to study the nature of the real as the only material at its disposal , in which the same can be realized. Since every concept, whatever it may be, must have something about it that makes it a concept (its form) and something else that makes it that particular concept (its content), the pattern to which each In order to be allowed to be regarded as exemplary, it has to be equal to the concept, both its form and its content, or perhaps both at the same time, can, indeed must, concern. In the first respect, therefore, there will be a model form to which every concept without distinction has to submit as a norm in order to be recognized as a concept; in the latter respect there will be a norm to which every concept of a certain content has to conform in order to be regarded as a model concept of that very content; the former therefore represents the authoritative norm for all concepts without distinction of content, the latter, on the other hand, represents the norm for concepts of any common content, e.g. B. for all those who refer to beings (existing) or for all those who refer to what should be (not yet existing)