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On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Right

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|488| and surrendering the appearance of life, the purely quantitative, so that, as its own seed, it eternally raises itself from its ashes to new youth, – partly eternally annihilating its difference outwardly and nourishing itself on the inorganic and producing it, calling forth out of indifference a difference or a relation of an inorganic nature, and again sublating the same and consuming it as it consumes itself. We shall see presently what this inorganic nature of the ethical is. But secondly, in this side of the relation or of infinity the subsistence of what is annihilated is also posited, for just because the absolute concept is the opposite of itself, the being of difference is posited along with its pure unity and negativity; or the annihilating posits something which it annihilates, or the real, and thus there would be an actuality and difference insuperable for ethical life. Individuality, which through the seat that infinity has set up here in the whole force of its antithesis is in the antithesis not merely in possibility but actu, according to actuality, would be unable to purify itself of difference and to take itself up into absolute indifference. That both, the sublatedness of the antithesis and the subsistence of it, be not only ideal but also real, is in general the positing of a separation and segregation, so that the reality in which ethical life is objective is divided into a part which is absolutely taken up into indifference, and one in which the real as such subsists, is therefore relatively identical and bears within itself only the reflected light of absolute ethical life. There is hereby posited a relation of absolute ethical life, which is wholly indwelling in the individuals and is their essence, to relative ethical life, which is likewise real in individuals. The ethical organisation can maintain itself pure in reality in no other way than that the universal spread of the negative in it be checked and set on one side. How indifference appears in the subsisting real

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    The following passages of this essay anticipate ideas that Hegel later developed at greater length in the Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Each link leads directly to the exact passage within this essay:

    p. 427 f. (part 2, 1802) – “The state of nature, and the majesty and divinity of the whole of the condition of right …” → § 258 (on the relation between the state of nature, contract theory, and the state’s ethical substantiality)
    p. 437 (part 2, 1802) – “If the determinacy of property in general is posited, then the tautological proposition …” → § 135 (on the critique of the empty formalism of the Kantian doctrine of duty (the example of property))
    p. 439 (part 2, 1802) – “A maxim that, on this principle, is immoral because it contradicts itself, is, precisely …” → § 135 (on the critique of the empty formalism of the Kantian doctrine of duty (the example of helping the poor))
    p. 449 (part 2, 1802) – “In this its determination, then, punishment is something in itself, truly infinite and …” → § 99 (on the theory of punishment: punishment as a work of freedom, against the mere idea of coercion or deterrence)
    p. 458 (part 2, 1802) – “They received laws and commanders from the will of their monarch, and the descendants of …” → § 357 (on the Roman Empire as the disintegration of ethical life into private personhood and abstract universality)
    p. 459 (part 2, 1802) – “It is this nothing other than the performance of tragedy within the ethical, which the …” → § 324 (on the ethical moment of sacrifice and the transience of the finite (compare the motif of war))
    p. 464 (part 2, 1802) – “But that which we have set on one side under the outer form of the first estate is the …” → § 325 (on the estate of valor of its own, and the free, violent death as the highest abstraction of freedom)
    p. 469 (part 3, 1803) – “There must also be a reflex of the same in his empirical consciousness, and such a reflex …” → § 204 (on the second estate (possession, property, bourgeois/formal ethical life))
    p. 469 f. (part 3, 1803) – “Those properties, however, that are truly ethical, in that in them the particular or …” → § 150 (on virtue as ethical energy become individual (the examples of Epaminondas, Hannibal, Caesar))
    p. 470 (part 3, 1803) – “It must also present itself in the form of universality and of cognition, as a system of …” → § 274 (on the relation between legislation and the living customs of a people)
    p. 471 (part 3, 1803) – “We remark in advance, in general, that philosophy, through the universality of the …” → § 3 (on the boundary between philosophical and positive (historical) legal science)

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