Jena Philosophy of Spirit

[p. 238]

|238| the law possessed of it has the two sides, the singular subsisting in it, and the becoming of the singular; but that subsisting is in general the movement in itself.

The¹⁰⁸⁾ force of the law is in itself, or the substance; it is this for the singular, object which is his essence, his in-itself, and he himself is its life; he becomes α) in himself the universal, the dead, dull consciousness β cultivated consciousness, which preserves itself in its pure abstraction.

108) In the margin: Content and movement of the law. The law is thus immediate, its content likewise immediate; it is not yet custom, not living; but abstract; as law it is the existing of the common will of different persons about a singular matter; they [enter] on behalf of the law where they have come to a common will about a determinate relation, and declare it; freedom to keep the contract or not is thereby sublated – insofar as the singular is pure person, life, will as such, he is immediately object of the law. – What is undetermined by law is permitted, i.e. what is undeterminable by it as abstraction; – only forbidding can be done by the law as such, not commanding, because the singular will is here the beginner; a common will must first come about through itself – the singular is the actual as against its abstraction

a) The law [as] the subsisting of his immediate existence. α) He is immediately in it as a natural whole, he is as family; he counts as this natural whole, not as person; this he has yet to become – He is α) immediate being-recognised, he is something bound by love; this bond is a totality of many relations; natural procreation, common living together, care, acquisition, education – the bond is this whole; the singular is absorbed in this whole – As this whole it is for the law, for the universal – thus it is marriage; not this or that purpose, but as the universal; this total movement within itself, being-recognised love, intuiting in care, doing, labour, and return in the child, in procreation, but precisely therein dissolution, intervention in the

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