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[Realphilosophie: Philosophy of Spirit, 1805/06]
The second part of Hegel’s manuscript for his lectures on “Realphilosophie” (philosophy of nature and of spirit), written in 1805/06 for the winter semester 1805/06 and revised in 1806; Hegel certainly delivered the lectures in the summer semester of 1806. Not published in his lifetime; first edited by Johannes Hoffmeister in 1931 as “Jenenser Realphilosophie II”, hence the customary title. Translated from the text of the Gesammelte Werke (vol. 8, “Jenaer Systementwürfe III”, ed. Rolf-Peter Horstmann with Johann Heinrich Trede, 1976, pp. 185–287). Additions by the editors stand in square brackets, as do headings that are not Hegel’s; the critical apparatus and the leaf numbers of the manuscript are not reproduced. Hegel’s emphases (letter-spaced or in small capitals in the edition) appear in italics.
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Cross-reference: Hegel’s last working-out of the philosophy of spirit before the Phenomenology, and the first in which recognition, contract, crime, law, the estates and government are developed out of the will – the path of the Groundlines, which begin with the will (§ 4 ff.). Many pieces return there: property and recognition (§ 41 ff., § 71), contract (§ 72 ff.), crime and punishment (§ 90 ff.), wealth and poverty (§ 241 ff.), the estates (§ 201 ff.), war (§ 324 ff.), state and religion (§ 270 Remark). Written earlier is the System of Ethical Life. At each section the corresponding place is noted as a cross-reference. The German text is on the German side of this edition.
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Contents
- [I. Spirit according to its concept]
- [a. Intelligence]
- b. Will
- II. Actual spirit
- [a. Being-recognised]
- a. [Immediate being-recognised]
- b. Contract
- c. Crime and punishment
- b. The law possessed of power
- III. Constitution
- The estates; or the nature of spirit articulating itself within itself
- I) The lower estates and dispositions
- II. The estate of universality
- C. Art, religion and science
[I. Spirit according to its concept]
Cross-reference: Intelligence and will: in the Groundlines the distinction of thinking and will, § 4 Remark; the concept of the will § 5–§ 7.
[a. Intelligence]
The subsistence of the object, its space, is in spirit being; it is the abstract pure concept of subsistence. I and the thing are in space;1) it is posited as essentially different from its content, it is not the essence of its filling itself, it is only something formally universal that is separated from its particular; but the subsistence of spirit is truly universal; it contains the particular itself; the thing is, it is not in being – but it is itself.
1) In the margin: attention in general, singling out a single point, distinguishing for spirit.
This is immediately the essence of intuition; knowing of something that is. But spirit is this which mediates itself with itself, it is only as sublating what it immediately is, stepping back from it; or the movement in it is to be considered, how that which is becomes the universal for it,2) or how it makes it so, posits it as what it is – being is the form of immediacy, but it is to be posited in its truth.
2) In the margin: how it posits the thing.
α) As intuiting in general, so that for it a being is, it is immediate –
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