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|345|<\/span> The history of spirit is its deed<\/em>, for spirit is only what it does, and its deed is to make itself \u2014 here, precisely as spirit \u2014 the object of its own consciousness, to comprehend itself by expounding itself to itself. This comprehension is its being and its principle, and the completion<\/em> of an act of comprehension is at the same time its self-externalization and its transition. The spirit that, to put it formally, comprehends this comprehension anew<\/em> \u2014 which is to say, the spirit that returns into itself out of its self-externalization \u2014 is spirit at a higher stage in relation to itself, compared with how it stood in that earlier act of comprehension.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The question of the perfectibility<\/em> and education of the human race<\/em> belongs here. Those who have asserted this perfectibility have had an intimation of something of the nature of spirit \u2014 of its nature to have \u0393\u03bd\u1ff6\u03b8\u03b9 \u03c3\u03b5\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u03cc\u03bd<\/em> as the law of its being<\/em>, and, in that it comprehends what it is<\/em>, to be a higher shape than that which merely constituted its being. But for those who reject this thought, spirit has remained an empty word, just as history has remained a superficial play of contingent<\/em>, so-called merely human<\/em> endeavours and passions. And even if, in doing so, they express in the terms providence<\/em> and the plan<\/em> of providence a belief in a higher governance, these remain unfulfilled representations, since they also expressly declare the plan of providence to be something unknowable and incomprehensible to them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

|345| The history of spirit is its deed, for spirit is only what it does, and its deed is to make itself \u2014 here, precisely as spirit \u2014 the object of its own consciousness, to comprehend itself by expounding itself to itself. This comprehension is its being and its principle, and the completion of an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-901039","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\/901039","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906023,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901039\/revisions\/906023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grundlinien.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}