Supplements to I–IV (paragraphs 1–15 of the “Introduction”)
Dialectic (cf. as an example “Sense certainty,” paragraph 20 [§109]) as the name for the objectness (i.e., truth) of consciousness in its appearance, the being-spoken-through that expresses itself, λόγος—διά. Platonic-transcendental, not Kant’s transcendental dialectic.
2. Our contribution [Zu-tat] (cf. p.90ff.).
Our contribution [Zu-tat] is the explicit enactment of the looking on, namely of the supporting and guiding and opening looking-out upon …, the explicit enactment of the transcendental I unite, I connect that occurs essentially in consciousness itself.
The transcendental, however, is in itself intended as a reversal—re-flection (in itself already). The re- not in addition to but already concealed in the re-praesentare.
3. The reversal—properly speaking four essential moments
as turning—the transcendental
as turn into the externalization
as return from the externalization into the transcendentally viewed unconditionedness
as return the turning forth of the transcendental
4. The experience as the essential midpoint of consciousness
“The experience” not as procedure but as the essential midpoint of consciousness: it is the “reflection” in and as “movement,” life, spirit.
“The experience” that consciousness undergoes with itself is the transition from the “for it” to the “for us” and back again; but this back finds another object. (The “we” in the “for us” “are” the essence of consciousness in its transcendental truth.)
The dis-illusionment—the disappearance.
The “transition”—the constant going through of this back and forth as movement “is” what is essential.
This movement, however, is not one manner of proceeding among others but is the proper essence of consciousness, which is ontic-ontological in itself.
Therefore only a first step: the step toward consciousness as self-consciousness. The second and proper step is: to comprehend the “I think” as transcendental. The return to self-consciousness as the transcendental turning.
And the transcendental turning as the concealed truth and the ground of every return of consciousness to itself in its contingent history.