Author: wbauer
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Just as, for the principle of family life, the earth, firm ground and soil, is the condition, so, for industry, the natural element that animates it outwardly is the sea. Amid the pursuit of acquisition, precisely by exposing it to danger, industry raises itself, at the same time, above that pursuit, and displaces the fixation…
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This extended connection also offers the means of colonization — sporadic or systematic — to which developed civil society is driven, and through which it procures, in part, for a portion of its population, in a new soil, a return to the family principle, and, in part, for itself, a new demand and field for…
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The provision of the police actualizes and maintains, at first, the universal that is contained in the particularity of civil society, as an external order and arrangement for the protection and security of the masses of particular purposes and interests that have their subsistence within this universal, just as, in the capacity of higher direction,…
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The agricultural estate has, in the substantiality of its family and natural life, immediately within itself, its concrete universal, in which it lives; the universal estate has, in its determination, the universal for itself, as the purpose of its activity and as its ground. The mean between the two, the estate of trade, is essentially…
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The system of labour in civil society falls, according to the nature of its particularity, into different branches. Since what is thus, in itself, alike within particularity comes into existence, as something held in common, within the association, the self-seeking purpose, directed toward its own particular [interest], at the same time grasps and actualizes itself…
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According to this determination, the corporation has, under the supervision of the public power, the right to attend to its own interests enclosed within it, to admit members according to the objective qualification of their skill and rectitude, in a number determined by the general context, and to bear, for those belonging to it, care…
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In the corporation, the family has not only its firm ground, as the securing of its subsistence conditioned by qualification, a firm resource (§ 170), but both are also recognized, so that the member of a corporation has no need to demonstrate, through any further external declarations, his competence and his orderly livelihood and progress…