{"id":900124,"date":"2024-05-31T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/?p=900124"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:30:03","slug":"126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/126\/","title":{"rendered":"126"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My particularity, however, as well as that of others,1<\/sup> (in the manuscript: particularity — \u03b2) free abstract personality)<\/em> is in general only a right insofar as I am a free being<\/em>. It cannot, therefore, assert itself in contradiction with this its substantial basis; and an intention directed at my welfare, and at the welfare of others — in which case it is called, in particular, a moral intention<\/em> — cannot justify an unrightful action<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is one of the corrupt maxims of our time — stemming partly from the pre-Kantian period of the “good heart”, and constituting, for instance, the quintessence of well-known, moving dramatic representations — to take an interest, in the case of unrightful<\/em> actions, in the so-called moral intention<\/em>, and to represent bad subjects as possessing a heart that is supposed to be good, that is, one that wills its own welfare and perhaps also the welfare of others; but this doctrine has, in an intensified form, been warmed up again, and inward enthusiasm and the heart — that is, the form<\/em> of particularity as such — have been made the criterion of what is right, rational, and excellent, so that crimes and the thoughts guiding them, however flat, hollow, and foolish the notions, would for that reason be right, rational, and excellent, because they come from the heart<\/em> and from enthusiasm<\/em>; on this, see further below, \u00a7 140<\/a> Remark. — It should, moreover, be noted at what standpoint right and welfare are here considered, namely as formal right and as the particular welfare of the individual; the so-called general good<\/em>, the welfare<\/em> of the state — that is, the right of the actual concrete spirit — is a wholly different sphere, in which formal right is just as much a subordinate moment as the particular welfare and happiness of the individual. That it is one of the frequent errors of abstraction to assert private right and private welfare as in and for themselves valid<\/em> against the universal of the state has already been remarked above (\u00a7 29<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My particularity, however, as well as that of others,1 (in the manuscript: particularity — \u03b2) free abstract personality) is in general only a right insofar as I am a free being. It cannot, therefore, assert itself in contradiction with this its substantial basis; and an intention directed at my welfare, and at the welfare of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-900124","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\/900124","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=900124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900184,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900124\/revisions\/900184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}