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|255| The individuals of the mass, since they are themselves spiritual natures and thus contain within themselves the doubled moment — namely the extreme of individuality knowing and willing for itself, and the extreme of universality knowing and willing the substantial — and therefore attain the right of these two sides only in so far as they are actual both as private persons and as substantial persons, attain, in those spheres, partly immediately the former and partly the latter, in that they have their essential self-consciousness in the institutions, as the universal that is in itself of their particular interests, and partly in that these institutions grant them, in the corporation, a business and an activity directed toward a universal purpose.

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    § 264: Two Sides in Every Person

    Every person has two sides. He wants something for himself. And at the same time he wants the universal. He gets his right only if both sides become real. He must be a private person and at the same time a member of the whole.

    How does this work?

    As a private person he lives in the family and in society. And he finds the universal in the institutions. In them he recognizes what his own interests have in common. There he knows what he essentially is. In the corporation he also has an activity for a universal purpose.

    Summary: Every person wants what is his own and what is universal. He finds both in the family, in society and in their institutions, above all in the corporation.

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