: it is I who practice the epoche, I who interrogate, as phenomenon, the world which is now valid for me according to its being and being such, with all its human beings, of whom I am so fully conscious; it is I who stand above all natural existence that has meaning for me, who am the ego pole of this transcendental life, in which, at first, the world has meaning for me purely as world; it is I who, taken in full concreteness, encompass all that.