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|212| movement, acquisition.58) Here for the first time the interest of acquiring, and of abiding possession, and of the universal possibility of existence is present. Here for the first time desire itself as such properly enters, namely as rational, sanctified if one will; it is satisfied through common labour. The labour is done not for desire as singular, but as universal; he who works on this does not consume precisely this, but it goes into the common store, and from this all are maintained. – It is, like the tool, the universal possibility of enjoyment, and also the universal actuality of the same; it is an immediately spiritual possession.
58) In the margin: possession has the meaning that a thing is mine, or the I is universal, it is many I’s, this present here.
– The family estate has the moment of activity in it, higher than the tool, in such a way that the two extremes are self-conscious activities – But this object does not yet have love in it,59) rather love is in the extremes; the cognition of the two characters is not yet itself a cognising cognition, love itself is not yet the object; but the I of love withdraws from it, repels itself from itself, and becomes object to itself. The unity of the two characters is only love, but it does not know itself as love; as this it knows itself in the child. In it they intuit love, their self-conscious unity, as self-conscious.
59) In the margin: love is α) as equality abstract being this posited, possession appears as something alien, but in its concept β) actuality, self being-for-itself
It is the immediate object, or a singular; and the unity of love is now at the same time movement to sublate this singularity. This movement has, on one side, the significance of sublating the immediate existence – death of the parents; they are the vanishing becoming, the self-sublating origin. –
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