Jena Philosophy of Spirit

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|273| [must] be made – guilds determine rights of masters over apprentices and journeymen – so too over wages for labour and the like)

The public estate labours for the state; spirit has raised itself to the universal object – man of business; but his labour is itself very divided, abstract, – machine labour;¹⁶⁶⁾ it is indeed immediately for the universal – but according to a limited and at the same time fixed side, on which he cannot make changes. – His disposition is that he fulfils his duty; he raises the determinate universal to the knowing of the universal; in his determinate doing he sees the absolute, moral disposition – spirit has raised itself above character – it does a universal.

166) In the margin: having being-recognised in itself; – each [agrees] according to this morality, on top of this, that he does what belongs to his estate –

b) the man of business proper is in part also at the same time scholar; – he knows how to fulfil his duty – this knowing is empty, universal, – or in the particular duty only the universal counts – This¹⁶⁷⁾ pure knowing is to be filled, has to give itself a content in itself – a free content which is at the same time a disinterested object – or in which I – have my thinking just as duty is – but so that this my thinking is at the same time free of me – this¹⁶⁸⁾ is the

167) In the margin: empty thinking of itself – as duty

168) In the margin: cultivated public opinion, treasury of maxims, of consciousness – concepts of right – and wrong – insight – against this public opinion one cannot – From it all changes proceed, and it itself is only the conscious lack of advancing spirit; what spirit has made its own – that is superfluous as force. When conviction has slackened – inner necessity, no force can hold it back – but wisdom of the government to know what spirit properly no longer wills – Its language formally universality – Thus French Revolution – abolition of the privileged estates – this accomplished – abolition of the inequality of estate, empty talk –

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