Will and Binary Subjectivity

Formaterialism consists of two fundamental principle--the Material Principle, i. e. the process of Becoming-Diverse, and the Formal Principle, i. e. the process of Becoming-the-Same. In the sphere of personal experience, these principles are Will and Consciousness, respectively. In the former, the initial moment is I, while in the latter, the terminal moment is I. Hence, Formaterialism entails what can be called 'binary subjectivity', because each I is fundamentally a moment in a distinct subjective function, in terms of which hypostasization, abstraction, and homogenization produce the more familiar unitary 'I' of traditional theories. Three prominent theories that wrestle with binary subjectivity are Kant's, with both a theoretical and a practical subject; Whitehead's, with its subject-superject dichotomy; and, Sartre's, in which Consciousness both is aware of its object and is a flight from it. However, none of these offers a satisfactory systematization of it.