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1.According to the reasoning in my notes, "Critical Theory and Revisionary MetaprqysicsMetaphysics," the passiones entis covertibiles are all constituted by the unavoidable, -indispensable human interests-in the true, the good (including the just or right), and the beautiful.

2. Necessarily presupposed by these interests, however, is the interest in reality as such, as that which makes a difference, and in the oneness of reality, its whatness, its somewhatness, and so on. But this interest constitutes the passio entis convertibile. The human subject is interested in and has to take account of the real; and the real includes whatever it, in one way or another, is interested in or has to take account of. (In the first instance, the human subject's interest in the real is existential, wherefor it takes acount account of the real in its meaning for us, for our self-understanding and/or life-praxis. But the human subject also has an intellectual interest in the reat real wherefor it also takes account of the real in its structure in itself.)

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