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embedded, though not fully developed, a new concept of humanity
as the condition for man's Existenz. In any case, men move together
within this "surrounding" Being; and they hunt neither the phantom
of the Self nor do they live in the arrogant illusion that they can be
Being generally.
Through the essentially human movement of transcendence
through thought, and of the failure of thought bound up with this,
we at least arrive at the conclusion that Man, as "Master of his
thoughts," not only is more than any of
his
thoughts (and this would
probably be the fundamental condition for a new definition of human
dignity), but that from the first man's nature is to be more than him–
self and to will more than himself. With this, Existenz philosophy has
left the period of its egoism.
