Jena Philosophy of Spirit

[p. 220]

|220| one extreme of which is outside him (sublated in the other), and each is within himself – but both I’s, the one in me and the one sublated in the other, are the same. I am content to myself as purpose, i.e. I am positive to myself – my I is to be likewise positive; – or my positivity is as yet only enclosed in me, as yet only my purpose. The inequality therefore has α) the form that the one sublated only the being of the other, while the other sublated the being-for-itself of the first β) in each, that each knows himself outside himself; the one has lost his existence, namely the offended one; the other has given himself his existence again, but this restoration happened at the expense of the other, is conditioned by it; it is not an immediate, free acquisition. Their roles are therefore exchanged; the offender is satisfied for himself (not in himself, for his being-in-itself is conditioned); the second is now the provoked one, the tense one; an alien being for itself has posited itself in his own; he aims no longer at restoring his existence, but his knowing of himself, i.e. at being recognised. The⁷²⁾ actual being-for-itself is to be posited as such, not as form of the thing, for this had nothing abiding, nor through language; for knowing is actual; – it is will, being-for-itself as such; its actuality has the significance of being recognised by the other, of counting as absolute for him. – But for it to count as absolute, it must present itself [as] absolute, as will, i.e. as something for which its existence, which it had as possession, no longer counts, but rather this its known being for itself; whose being has the pure significance of knowing of itself, and so comes to existence. Such presenting, however, is the sublating, accomplished through itself, of the existence⁷³⁾ that belongs to it, through itself, direction of the

72) In the margin: Each knows himself for himself – for the one has sublated the alien being for itself; but the other intuits his being for himself sublated; – he intuits it as sublated – he is knowing –

73) In the margin: α) possession; β) vanishing of this being for itself of the form, of possession γ) vanishing of his own immediate existence

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