B. The Administration of Justice

The relative [character] of the reciprocal relation of needs and of labour for them has, at first, its reflection into itself in infinite personality in general — in abstract right. But it is this sphere of the relative, as culture, itself, which gives to right its existence: to be universally recognized, known, and willed, and, mediated through this being-known and being-willed, to have validity and objective actuality.

It belongs to culture, to thought as the consciousness of the individual in the form of universality, that I be conceived as a universal person, in which respect all are identical. The human being counts, thus, because he is a human being, not because he is a Jew, Catholic, Protestant, German, Italian, and so on. This consciousness, to which thought counts, is of infinite importance — deficient only when it fixes itself, say, as cosmopolitanism, in opposition to concrete life in the state.