In the first series of lectures we carried out a deeper analysis of the motifs of Cartesian philosophizing which continue to determine the whole modern development: on the one hand, those motifs which announce themselves in his first Meditations and, on the other hand, those which stand in internal contrast with these,.e., the physicalistic (or mathematizing) idea of philosophy according to which the world in its full concreteness bears within itself an objectively true being in the form of the ordo geometricus and