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|265| free as each singular one in his knowing, in his disposition, and however different it is – just as free are the powers, the singular sides of the whole, abstract moments – labour, manufacture, – the condition of right and administration and the military, each develops itself completely according to its one-sided principle,155) – the organic whole has complete entrails, which develop themselves in their abstraction, – it is not each singular one, manufacturer, peasant, craftsman, soldier, judge, etc. – rather this divides itself – each belongs to one abstraction – and he is a whole to himself in his thinking.
155) In the margin: Organisation of spirit; α) duty – b) morality; each to raise himself above his estate. α) nature – or estate of singularity β) universal estate, purpose the universal, man of business, – scholar, soldier and government γ) religion, philosophy, spirit that is
(Three things are now to be developed, firstly the members of the whole, the external fixed organisation and its entrails, the powers as they are in them156) – β) the disposition of each estate, its self-consciousness – its being as purely knowing within itself – immediate tearing loose from existence – knowing of spirit of its member, as such – and elevation above it – the former ethical life – the latter morality – thirdly religion; – the first is spiritual nature freely released – the other is the knowing of it of itself, – as of knowing, the third is spirit knowing itself as absolute spirit, – religion.)
156) In the margin: The estate and the spirit of an estate; it is properly this determinate spirit that develops itself further, from crude trust and labour on, up to the knowing of absolute spirit of itself. – It is at first the life of a people in general, from this it has to free itself – α) its consciousness is in the particular, three first estates – β its object becomes the universal in the estate of business,
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