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Second Section. Intention and Welfare<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The external existence of the action is a manifold connection that can be regarded as infinitely divided into singularities<\/em>, and the action may be regarded as touching, in the first instance, only such a single point<\/em>. But the truth of the single<\/em> is the universal<\/em>1<\/a><\/sup>, and the determinacy of the action is, for itself, not a content isolated to an external singularity but a universal<\/em> content that contains within it the manifold connection. The purpose, as proceeding from a thinking being<\/em>, contains not merely the singularity but essentially that universal side<\/em> — the intention<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intention<\/em> contains, etymologically, abstraction — partly the form of universality<\/em>, partly the extracting of a particular<\/em> side of a concrete matter. The endeavour to justify oneself by appeal to intention is the isolating of some single side in general, which is then maintained to be the subjective essence of the action. — The judgment on an action as an external deed, still without the determination of its right or wrongful side, ascribes to it a universal<\/em> predicate — that it is arson, killing, and so forth. — The isolated<\/em> determinacy of external actuality shows what its nature<\/em> is as an external connection<\/em>. Actuality is at first touched only at a single point (just as arson immediately affects only a small point of the wood, which yields only a proposition, not yet a judgment), but the universal nature of this point contains its extension. In the living thing, the single is immediately present not as a part but as an organ, in which the universal as such exists as present, so that in murder it is not a piece of flesh, as something singular, but life itself that is violated therein. It is, on the one hand, the subjective reflection that does not know the logical nature of the singular and the universal and that indulges in the splintering into singularities and consequences; on the other hand, it is the nature of the finite deed itself to contain such separations of contingencies. — The invention of dolus indirectus<\/em> has its ground in what has been considered here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

  1. Hegel gives no reference. The proposition is a logical one: the singular is not the isolated particular but has the connection in which it stands at its own self – which is why an action is never merely the one singularity it first touches (Encyclopaedia, 3rd ed. \u00a7 163–165 and \u00a7 172 ff.<\/em>). – See Die Grammatik der logischen Begriffe (in German): Allgemeinheit<\/a>. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Second Section. Intention and Welfare The external existence of the action is a manifold connection that can be regarded as infinitely divided into singularities, and the action may be regarded as touching, in the first instance, only such a single point. But the truth of the single is the universal, and the determinacy of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Hegel gives no reference. The proposition is a logical one: the singular is not the isolated particular but has the connection in which it stands at its own self – which is why an action is never merely the one singularity it first touches (Encyclopaedia, 3rd ed. \u00a7 163–165 and \u00a7 172 ff.<\/em>). – See Die Grammatik der logischen Begriffe (in German): Allgemeinheit<\/a>.\",\"id\":\"db3d934a-ac91-4758-9d59-92ec5ae4ae7a\"}]"},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-900117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paragraph-en","category-uncategorized","tag-concept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902940,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900117\/revisions\/902940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}