[p. 253]
|253| as abstract universal ones, – who are worthy of respect; – The abstract universal receives respect; – it has at the same time the goodness to correct its right through settlement and equity – Is master over the one just as over the other – abstract universality, or in existence. γ) Finally it is the might over life and death, the fearsome of the singular – but is master over pure evil, it is the divine spirit – which knows the absolutely other, evil, that which in thought as such is utterly other, as itself.
These are its powers, or abstract moments, it has as yet no existence in which these are reflected into themselves.
Criminal126) jurisdiction is grounded in this, that α) the universal is the substance of the singular β) the known and willed substance, whoever has given up his right has externalized himself precisely as abstract universal, – i.e. α) positively he counts as living and pure will against force, and is protected β) he has given himself as living and will into the power of the state; through the externalization of supposed right I am pure person,127) but am only as such as law, – my existence is the law, – i.e. I depend on it entirely. –
126) In the margin: in itself revenge is just
127) In the margin: the existing evil intention, (culpa dolus –)
III. Constitution
Cross-reference: The state § 257 ff.; on who makes the constitution, the Remark to § 273; on the prince § 275 ff.
The state as wealth is the being-sublated both of singularised existence, – and of the in-itself in existence, and of the pure being-in-itself of the person – man has his existence, being and thinking solely in the law. – The law
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