[p. 247]
|247| but precisely this unmediated being-present no longer counts – but a being-present that is as common will, – or that is likewise a mediated one – the meaning counts, the other did indeed recognise me as not yet performing, but in the meaning of the common will – This meaning counts in the law – the meaning is the inner – the pure person, the law is this meaning – In the death penalty all duality of meaning and existence has sublated itself; I am there as I am in myself, according to the meaning, not that which I particularly put into it, but according to the meaning of the common will. –118) The law therefore compels, i.e. here, it carries out, against my particular meaning, the common one, against my existence my in-itself, or against my particular self, my universal one. (– Through this coercion my honour is no longer injured (culture) for compulsion does not contain my subjection; the vanishing of my self before another self, but of me against myself, of me as particular, against myself as universal, and indeed this not as might, but as might of the law, which I recognise; i.e. the negative meaning of me has equally a positive one; I am equally preserved therein – It likewise comes to119) my good – I120) am preserved not only in my thought, – honour – but also in my being.)
118) In the margin: over the singular no absolute universal – but common will
119) In the margin: Culture, intuiting oneself in the universal. Human beings must first be compelled like animals.
120) In the margin: Because I have positive meaning, I do not retain my opinion against this law; – nothing for me
However, the contingency comes in here in another way – in the concept it was contingency of performing. Here αα) the determination of the abstract law according to its
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