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|178| C. The Upbringing of Children and the Dissolution of the Family

In the children, the unity of the marriage — which, as substantial, is only inwardness and disposition, but which, as existing, is separated within the two subjects — becomes, as unity itself, an existence that is for itself and an object, one that they love as their love, as their substantial existence. — On its natural side, the presupposition of immediately present persons — as parents — here becomes a result, a progression that runs on into the infinite progress of generations engendering and presupposing one another — the manner in which, within finite naturalness, the simple spirit of the Penates presents its existence as a genus.

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  1. Hegel (Encyclopedia 1827) Avatar
    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1827)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1827), § 521:

    § 521. The ethical life bound up with the natural procreation of children, initially posited (§ 519) as original in the contracting of marriage, actualizes itself in the second birth of the children, the spiritual one — their upbringing into independent persons.

  2. Hegel (Encyclopedia 1830) Avatar
    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1830)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1830), § 521:

    § 521. The ethical life bound up with the natural procreation of children, initially posited (§ 519) as original in the contracting of marriage, actualizes itself in the second birth of the children, the spiritual one — their upbringing into independent persons.

  3. Eduard Gans (Additions) Avatar
    Eduard Gans (Additions)

    Between man and wife the relation of love is not yet objective; for even though feeling is indeed the substantial unity, this [unity] still has no objectivity. Such objectivity the parents attain only in their children, in whom they have before them the whole of [their] union. The mother loves the husband in the child, the husband loves the wife in it, both have their love before them in it. Whereas in property the unity exists only in an external thing, in the children it exists in something spiritual, in which the parents are loved and which they [in turn] love.

  4. Hegel (Simple) Avatar
    Hegel (Simple)

    § 173: The children

    In the children, the love of the parents becomes visible.

    What does this mean?

    The unity of man and woman is at first only a feeling. It lives in two separate people. But in the child this unity stands before them in the flesh. In the child the mother also loves the father. The father loves the mother in it. Both have their love before their eyes in the child.

    And the passing of time?

    The parents were once children themselves. Now they have children. These will be parents in their turn. So it goes on from generation to generation.

    Summary: In the child, the love of the parents becomes a reality of its own. The parents see their unity in the flesh before them. So life goes on from generation to generation.

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