Reason says that it does not make sense to think of the self as a thing in itself, as a neumenal being. Argument: there is a stage in the vocation"s dialectical scepticism that the thing in itself is a thought -> nothing to point to! In the beginning there was action (thought is the act of creation. ) The human being is active, and its essence is to strive; an agency. Therefore, to say i is normative; one must be moral. Yet, one cannot force people to accept this doctrine. Therefore, it depends on a person"s relation with this philosophy. Fichte notes that many philosophies fall into an infinite regress. Fichte recognizes that it is impossible to begin a philosophy without presuppositions, for humans cannot obtain a god"s eye view of the world. As it is impossible to begin without presuppositions, the nature of one"s philosophy therefore depends on the presuppositions that one holds in the beginning.