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Let philosophy be understood as critical reflection on self-understanding, and thus on ultimate reality, which is to say, the necessary conditions of the possibility not only of human existence but also of being as such.

There should be no mystery, then about philosophy's being, in its first purely formal aspect, analysis of presuppositions iiberhaupt---_überhaupt—i.e., of the necessary conditions of the possibility of all the various forms of life-praxis and culture (this being the task of all the peripheral philosophical disciplines, the so-called _ philosophies of . . .) as well as of the necessary conditions of the possibility of human existence and of being as such (this being the task of the central philosophical disciplines of transcendental metaphysics, including existentialist analysis, and transcendental ethics).

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