Jena Philosophy of Spirit

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|237| itself; the substance of its existence – which rests entirely on community with the others,¹⁰⁵⁾ hence the absolute necessity of this community; the whole is at the same time only this universal subsistence;¹⁰⁶⁾ the singular subsistence is sublated in it, or provision is made only for all, not for the singular as such; he is rather sacrificed to the universal, β) the singular counts as possessing property; the universal is the substance of contract, or precisely this existence, this counting of the common will. He is person, security of the person, – justice, the power that contains him as pure being,¹⁰⁷⁾ the power of his life as over his life, as over the preservation of his subsisting existence. γ) His existence in it is now the becoming, in himself, into the universal, culture. Or this force of the singular includes within itself α) according to his existence β and according to his knowing – intelligent being-recognised – α) substance β) that he knows this universal as such and knows himself in it. – These moments occur in every singular act, α) that each subsists in the universal substance, that he knows it – that his particular being is immediately universal – It is, and is object, as essence, and not as something alien, but as that in which each knows himself.

105) In the margin: in its otherness itself; common will – and indeed itself, as pure abstraction (death) or pure knowing.

106) In the margin: Difference, where the common will must first come about through consent and determinate declaration, – (marriage, and contract) and where it is immediately counting (inheritance) being. Law α) mere preserving, existence of the common will that has come about; β) where there is no will, taking up of the concept [as] in-itself – degrees of kinship, content of the law; γ) the law is the existing in-itself, takes the place of the living, guardianship; upholds the right of the singular as such.

107) In the margin: Law of the will as such, and of existence

Movement of this intelligent commonwealth is its fulfilment, as power possessed of force –

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