Jena Philosophy of Spirit

[p. 286]

|286| Or this selflessness of religion is so in itself that it is spirit that only represents itself – i.e. that its moments have for it the form of immediacy and of happening; – that they are not comprehended, not understood. – The content of religion is indeed true; but this being-true is an assurance – without insight –

This insight is philosophy, absolute science – the same content as that of religion – but form of the concept – α) speculative philosophy absolute being which to itself an other, (becomes relation) life and cognition – and knowing knowing, spirit, knowing of spirit of itself – β) philosophy of nature – expression of the Idea in the shapes of immediate being – It is the going into itself, evil, becoming spirit; the concept existing as concept; but this pure intelligence is likewise the opposite, the universal, and indeed that which sacrifices itself and thereby becomes actual – and universal actuality, is the people, restored nature, the reconciled essence, in which each takes his being-for-itself through his own externalization and sacrifice. –

In philosophy it is I as such which is knowing of absolute spirit, in the concept within itself, as this one which is universal. – Here [it is] not an other nature, not the non-present unity, not a reconciliation whose enjoyment and existence is beyond and future, but here – here I cognises the absolute; it cognises – it comprehends – it is no other – Immediately, it is this self. – I is this inseparable linking of the singular and the universal – and of singularity as universal of all nature – and of the universal, of all essentiality, of all thinking. The immediacy of spirit is the spirit of the people – or it as existing absolute spirit – Religion thinking spirit, which, however, does not think itself; not itself – hence not equality with itself – not immediacy. This knowing of philosophy is restored immediacy; – it itself is the form of mediation, of the concept; as immediacy it is spirit knowing itself in general – and it is consciousness, immediate sensuous consciousness – which is an other to itself under the form of what is – the dirempted into nature – and knowing

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