The phenomenology of mind by Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831 & Baillie J. B. (James Black) Sir 1872-1940

Author:Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 & Baillie, J. B. (James Black), Sir, 1872-1940
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: London, S. Sonnenschein; New York, Macmillan
Published: 1910-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

however, that " place" or semblance is immediately " displaced," is dissembled; for action is nothing else than the actualisation of the inner moral purpose, nothing but the production of an actuality constituted and determined by purpose; in other words, the production of the harmony of moral purpose and reality itself. At the same time the performance of the action is a conscious fact, it is the " presence " of this unity of reality and purpose; and because in the completed act consciousness realises itself as a given particular consciousness, or sees existence return into itself qua particular—and in this consists the nature of enjoyment—there is, eo ipso, also contained in the realisation of moral purpose that form of its realisation which is called enjoyment and happiness.

Action thus, as a fact, fulfils directly what it was asserted could not take place at all, fulfils what was to be merely a postulate, was to He merely " beyond." Consciousness, therefore, expresses through its deed that it is not in earnest in making the postulate, since the meaning of acting is really that it makes a present fact of what was not to be in the present. And, since the harmony is postulated for the sake of the action—for what is to become actual through action must be implicit, otherwise the actuality would not be possible —the connexion of action with the postulate is so constituted that, for the sake of the action, i.e. for the sake of Wie actual harmony of purpose and reality, this harmony is put forward as not actual, as far away, as " beyond."

Since action does take place, the want of adaptation between purpose and reality is thus in general not taken seriously. Action itself, on the other hand, does seem

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