Jena Philosophy of Spirit

[p. 278]

|278| of itself – being-recognised is the spiritual element; but still indeterminate in itself, and therefore filled with manifold content – the law that holds force is the movement of this content – or the universal intuiting itself as mediation – the constitution is its generation of the content out of itself, it constitutes itself, but in the form of the object, – it makes itself into the content, and as government it is spirit certain of itself, which knows that this is its content, it the power over it; spiritual content. It has thus now to generate this content as such, as self-knowing –

Thus it is immediately art. The infinite knowing which is immediately living, its own fulfilment, which has all the neediness of nature and of external necessity, of the diremption of knowing from itself and from its truth – taken back into itself – It is immediately the form to which the content is indifferent, and which could toss itself about in any – can bring each to intuition as infinite; lets its inner life, – or its spirit come forth – makes it as spirit into the object – It wavers between the shape and the pure I of it – and so between plastic and musical art – the latter is pure hearing, in which shaping [brings] only vanishing sounding to existence, and the melody of movement moves under harmony, the triad returned into itself – it is shapeless movement – the dance of this movement itself is the intuition-less – belonging to time – presentation – The other extreme, sculpture, is the resting presentation of the divine – Between the two falls painting, – the plastic, which takes colour into itself, the self-like in the form of feeling – poetry, the plastic as representation of the shape into the musical, whose sounding, expanded into language – has a content in itself.

Absolute art is that whose content is equal to the form, – everything can be raised into art – but this raising is an alien imagining; it must, as existing content – according to prosaic intuition, itself be equal to the form – this is spirit itself – nature poetry therefore the worst – land

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