The sacrifice for the state is the duty of all.

But at the same time it becomes a special task. An estate of its own devotes itself to it: the estate of courage, the military.

Summary: The sacrifice for the state is a universal duty. At the same time an estate of its own, the military, takes on this task.

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.