Since the sacrifice for the individuality of the state is the substantial relation of all, and thus a universal duty, it at the same time becomes, as the one side of ideality opposed to the reality of particular existence, itself a particular relation, to which a distinct estate, the estate of courage, is devoted.
Hegel, On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Right (Critical Journal of Philosophy, vol. 2, part 2, 1802), p. 464:
But that which we have set on one side under the outer form of the first estate is the real absolute consciousness of ethical life. It is consciousness, and as such, on its negative side, pure infinity, and the highest abstraction of freedom, that is, the relation of subduing driven to the point of its own sublation, or the free, violent death; but on the positive side, consciousness is the singularity and particularity of the individual.
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