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With regard to the evaluation of the drives, the dialectic presents the appearance that, as immanent and thus positive, the determinations of the immediate will are good; man is thus said to be good by nature. Insofar, however, as they are natural determinations, and thus opposed to freedom and to the concept of spirit in general and are the negative, they are to be extirpated; man is thus said to be evil by nature. At this standpoint, subjective arbitrariness is likewise the deciding factor for one assertion or the other.

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  1. Hegel (Notes) Avatar
    Hegel (Notes)

    [zu § 18] Judgment — to subsume under universal fixed determinations
    Good —
    α) good, what agrees with a purpose, e.g. my feeling — model — agrees with —
    β) the good — agreement of the will with itself — Posit[ive]
    Evil —
    Natural determinations — against freedom of the will.

  2. Eduard Gans (Additions) Avatar
    Eduard Gans (Additions)

    The Christian doctrine that man is by nature evil stands higher than the other doctrine, which holds him to be good; it is accordingly to be grasped in its philosophical interpretation. As spirit, man is a free being who has the standing not to let himself be determined by natural impulses. Man, in his immediate and uncultivated state, is therefore in a condition in which he ought not to be, and from which he must free himself. The doctrine of original sin, without which Christianity would not be the religion of freedom, has this meaning.

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