heautou

Updated: May 2, 2025

Thus the true system of natural philosophy places the sole reality of things in an ABSOLUTE, which is at once causa sui et effectus, pataer autopator, uios heautou in the absolute identity of subject and object, which it calls nature, and which in its highest power is nothing else than self-conscious will or intelligence.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biographia Literaria