By: Hegel (Notes)

Hegel (Notes) — Tue, 28 Jan 1823 08:06:32 +0000

Difference between family and state
α) Free, independent persons, who provide for themselves – bondsmen, for whom the lord or the state provides
β) For them the universal, a purpose, fatherland, laws, state as a universal, as that which commands subjectivity, and indeed as a law – respect for the law – not love or fear – law is not the subjective will – the same for all, and the shared element between the one who commands and the one who obeys – what is duty for the latter is also a limitation, a right, for the same – not contingent will, arbitrariness – but fixed, a boundary beyond which what is imposed may not go.
γ) Division of affairs – All moments of the substantial and its efficacy constitute their own bodies and systems of laws and activities.
System – particularization of ethical life, i.e. ethical life posited in its determinations – forms – every form, – difference, – is the whole genus, idea; –
a) immediate will; natural will, freedom – to be with oneself – through negation of the natural will, i.e. the first is natural
b) reflection – right, morality, abstract moment – falling down into particularity – unconscious substance, – necessity, bond –
For the particular (abstract –) form of universality – only form – formation – independence of the person – out of the natural unity – unity is purified only in the being-for-self of two beings –
c) state as third: α) independence of individuals –
β) union in laws – unity as known, conscious, expressed, thought unity – i.e. as freedom as such –

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