[p. 223]
|223| universal will. In this element the preceding has now to present itself; in it, just as in the will abstract intelligence has sublated [itself] – or its objects fulfilled themselves through themselves – so here abstract will has to sublate itself, or to produce itself as sublated in the element of universal being-recognised, this spiritual actuality. Possession is thereby transformed into right, just as labour previously into universal labour; what was family goods, in which the spouses knew themselves,78) becomes universal work and enjoyment of all; – and the difference of individuals becomes a knowing of good and evil;79) – personal right and wrong.
78) In the margin: (Permitted and not permitted) comes only in the other.
79) In the margin: (Good and evil)
[a. Being-recognised]
a. [Immediate being-recognised]
Being-recognised80) is immediate actuality, and in its element the person, at first as being-for-itself in general; it is enjoying and labouring. – Only here does desire have the right to appear; for it is actual, i.e. it itself has universal, spiritual being. Labour of all and for all, and enjoyment – enjoyment of all; each serves the other, and renders help – or the individual here first has existence as a singular. Before, it is only abstract, or untrue. – Spirit can indeed set itself in an abstraction, analyse itself, and give existence to one – which the animal cannot – where the self that lays itself into a system
80) In the margin: abstract being and movement
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