[p. 270]
|270| existence – the essence of the matter is the matter itself – Value is ringing coin. – The formal principle of reason is present. (But this money, which has the meaning of all needs, is itself only an immediate thing,) – it is the abstraction from all particularity, character etc., skill of the singular one; the disposition is this hardness of spirit in which the particular one, wholly externalized, no longer counts, – strict right, the bill of exchange must be honoured, let whatever will go to ruin – family – prosperity, life etc. – utter mercilessness – factories, manufactures found their subsistence precisely on the misery of a class – Spirit has thus become object to itself in its abstraction – as the selfless inner. But this inner is the I itself – and this I is its existence itself – the shape of the inner is not the dead thing – money, but likewise I – Or162) to spirit the state in general is object of its doing and endeavour, and purpose.
162) In the margin: α) trust and concretion of the peasants; – spirit as this one sublates itself into abstract universality, the opposition of right, or the counting of the universal – β merchant restores the imagined notion – formal concept of the unity of the self and of reality, of naive immediate unity – I = thing – their meaning the concrete
II. The estate of universality
Cross-reference: The universal estate § 205, the civil servants § 294; the military estate and war § 324 ff.
α) The public estate is immediately this intervention of the universal in everything singular, or the blood vessels and nerves which wind themselves
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