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On the Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Right

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|502| of the individual with the absolute – into the first ether, which out of its self-equal, fluid and soft form scatters its pure quantity through the individual formations into individuality and number, and thereby perfectly subdues this absolutely brittle and rebellious system, in that number is purified into pure unity and into infinity and becomes intelligence, and so the negative, in that it becomes absolutely negative – for the absolute concept is the absolute immediate opposite of itself, and the nothing is, as an ancient says12), no less than the something – can be perfectly one with the positively absolute; and in intelligence the form or the ideal is absolute form and as such real, and in absolute ethical life the absolute form is most truly bound with the absolute substance. Of the individualities of the formations which lie between the simple substance in reality as pure ether and it as the marriage with absolute infinity, none can bring the form and qualitative unity (whether through the quantitative, elemental equality of the wholes and the parts, or in higher formations through the individualisation going into what is more individual in the parts) and at the same time the formal union of them into a whole (through the sociality of the leaves of plants, of the genus, of the herd-wise life and common labour of animals) to absolute indifference with the essence and the substance, which indifference is in ethical life, because in intelligence alone the individualisation is driven to the absolute extreme, namely to the absolute concept, the negative up to the absolutely negative, to being the unmediated opposite of itself. This alone, then, is capable, in that it is absolute individuality, of being absolute universality; in that it is absolute negation and subjectivity, of being absolute position and objectivity; in that it is absolute difference and infinity, of being absolute

12) Editors: Aristoteles, Metaphysik I, 4

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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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