Jena Philosophy of Spirit

[p. 186]

|186| but it [turns] out of this immediacy, back into itself, [is] for itself; it sets itself free from this immediacy, first removing itself from it, it is, like the animal, time that is for itself, and likewise freedom of time; this pure subject which is free of its content; but also lord over it, as space and time are not, which are the selfless; it goes [out] from this being, and posits the same within itself as something not-being, as something sublated in general, thus it is representing imagination in general – It is the self, over against itself. – It itself is first intuiting; this self it sets over against itself – not the object, but its intuiting is object to it, i.e. the content of perception as its own. – In intuiting, what is intuited is in me, – for it is indeed I who intuit – it is my intuition –³⁾ Out of this intuiting spirit steps forth and intuits its intuiting, i.e. the object as its own; the object sublated as something that is, the image. In intuiting spirit is the image – for it as consciousness it is a being, separated from the I; – but for us unity of both. This comes to be for spirit itself – it is in and for itself; in intuiting it is at first only in itself, it completes this through the for-itself, – through negativity, separation of the in-itself, and goes back into itself – and its first self is object to it; the image, being as mine, as sublated. This⁴⁾ image belongs to it,⁵⁾ it is in possession of it, it is lord over it; it is preserved in its treasury, in its night – it is unconscious

3) In the margin: α) like the animal, it is in itself arbitrary movement, freedom, the self of time and space, arbitrarily posits the content here or there in space and time; – time and space is the external relation, this external relation as form it sublates; β) being, this belongs properly to the I as such, not space and time;

4) In the margin: α) night of preservation

5) In the margin: to its simple self – but the simple has no distinction, so here too, it is in it as undistinguished

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