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|227| being [is] universal self, and having is mediating through the other, or is universal – The universal is value; the movement as sensuous is exchange – the same universality is mediation as knowing movement – property, thus an immediate having which is mediated through being-recognised – or its existence is,87) is the spiritual essence. – Here the contingency of seizing possession is sublated; I have everything through labour and through exchange, in being-recognised. (I am likewise a universal, not this singular person, but at the same time family; – or property is α) the movement of the thing in exchange. Inheritance, later, is the change of individuals; the family is what abides; this does not yet occur here)88) Source, origin of property is here that of labour, of my doing itself, immediate self, – and being-recognised; ground; I am the cause; likewise because I have willed, purpose in exchange – cause, ground the universal – I have willed in exchange, – posited my thing as value, i.e. inward movement, inward doing – like labour, that which is sunk into being – the same externalization. α) I make myself immediately into a thing, form that is being, in labour β) of this my existence I likewise externalize myself, make it into something alien to me, and preserve myself in it; precisely in this I intuit my being-recognised; being as knowing, – there my immediate I; here my being-for-me, my person.
87) In the margin: α) forming β) recollection, value
88) In the margin: I am the contingency of the possession of my skill, inclination, talent – better contingency, brought closer. I myself absolutely necessary
Here, then, I intuit my being-recognised as existence, and my will is this counting.
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