The descent must be planned out with a great deal of caution, lest it start—and stop—with anything secondary. Under no circumstances may it begin (“existentially”), like the Augustinian “imago Trinitatis in mente” [image of the Trinity in the mind], with the individual subject, for there is no such thing as an individual subject without a social context, nor is man a bodiless spiritual subject. On the other hand,
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