Only because, in the fundamental certainty (in thefondamentum absolut ts of the me cogitnre /te esse), man is necessarily co represented; only because man who has been liberated to himself belongs, of necessity, within the subiectum of this freedom only for this reason can and must this man himself become the preeminent being, a mbiec which, in respect of the primary ente true (i.e., certain) beings, takes precedence over all other subiecta.