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|236| recognised in itself, that he lives in the element of being-recognised, that what exists had this significance.102) β) thereby it comes about that the violated one did not suffer in his honour; the honour of the one robbed, murdered, is not injured – for he is recognised in himself; or his being-recognised is – not as in the state of nature, where honour was attacked through the violation of possession, i.e. a being-recognised that is still only in thought – verbal insult violates honour, but not absolutely; the one insulted is not without rights – in itself the man without honour is also without rights.103)
102) In the margin: He who believes himself violated attacks the other in his life, as the being that is immediately one with his being-for-itself – quantitative relation
103) In the margin: In death the absolute power, the lord of the singular – or the common will has become pure being.
Through this movement being-recognised has presented itself as realised α) as containing within itself determinate existence and the particular will; as preserving itself in giving itself up, in its expression, as retaining its will β) this will as such, as the singular, as the existing one [in] contract; going back into singularity, crime, as though this will as such were it; crime, loss of the singularity of being through the universal will; the reconciled universal will, which counts absolutely as such; deterrence from crime. Intuiting of the law as the absolute power – not that of the singular.
b. The law possessed of power104)
104) In the margin: The law is so different from being-recognised that it the self
Cross-reference: The law and its application: § 211 ff.; on marriage § 161 ff.; on wealth, factory labour and poverty § 198 and § 241–§ 245; on the administration of justice § 219 ff.
It is the substance of the person, and has these moments in it, that it is α) the mediation of the person according to its immediate existence with
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