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Third Part: Ethical Life

ETHICAL LIFE is the Idea of freedom in that on the one hand it is
the good become alive — the good endowed in self-consciousness
with knowing and willing and actualised by self-conscious action —
while on the other hand self-consciousness has in the ethical realm its
absolute foundation and the end which actuates its effort. Thus
ethical life is the concept of freedom developed into the existing
world and the nature of self-consciousness.

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