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|194| what it is given in the name, namely thing, something that is; the name is it, and is a thing; – it makes itself into a thing by fixing within itself the order of the names; it fixes them in itself, i.e. it makes itself into this thoughtless order, which has only the semblance of an order – in the semblance of order lies the I – necessity, self of the sides; but the sides are still purely indifferent – It can make itself into a thing only as memory, because the thing into which it makes itself is in itself I;24) it is now the doing, the movement making itself into the object which it is given immediately in the name. (The for-itself of recollection is here its doing upon itself) Producing of itself, negating of itself – if the name is regarded as the object upon which it is active, then it sublates itself –
24) In the margin: This labour is repeating of the same; therein consists what is irksome, the I renounces its free arbitrary will, going beyond the determinate; – repeating is the positing of equality, of being. Holding fast to itself [as] the same. It is repeating of something known, where there is no longer any interest in the matter; no enjoyment in finding oneself in the other, not the naming; – hence purely non-sensuous occupation – holding fast of abstraction, itself as the empty space, fixing stars therein, pure fixing, – α) pure liberated activity; repeating β) without objectivity, – those to be fixed are still indifferent.
This labour is therefore the first inner working upon itself – an entirely non-sensuous occupation – and the beginning of the free elevation of spirit, for here it has itself as object – A far higher labour than the childish occupation with external sensuous, or painted images, – plants, animals – having a big snout, yellow mane, long tail etc., this seeing, attention is the first necessary activity, seeing precisely, activity of spirit, fixing, abstracting, taking out, exertion, overcoming of the
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