Third Section. Wrong

In the contract, right in itself is present as something posited, its inner universality as something common to arbitrary will and particular will. This appearance of right, in which right itself and its essential determinate being, the particular will, coincide immediately — that is, contingently — proceeds, in wrong, into semblance — into the opposition of right in itself and the particular will, in which right becomes a particular right. But the truth of this semblance is that it is null, and that right restores itself through the negating of this its negation, through which process of its mediation — of returning to itself out of its negation — it determines itself as actual and as valid, whereas at first it was only in itself and something immediate.