Driftwork

“The truth of Being and Nothing is accordingly the unity of the two: and this unity is becoming. …. Being and Nothing are exhibit the fundamental contrast in all its immediacy that is without the one term being invested with any attribute which would involve its connection with the other …It is as correct however to say that Being and Nothing are altogether different, as to assert their unity. The one is not what the other is. But since the distinction has not at this point assumed definite shape (Being and Nothing are still the immediate), it is, in the way they have it something unutterable, which we merely mean….” (§88 p129)

“ They are just as much in a unity, as this unity which appears as the middle term over against the independent extremes[perpetual diremption of itself into just these extremes which exist only through this process…”(Hegel 1977 §136)

“This spurious infinity is in itself the same thing as the perennial ought; it is the negation of the finite it is true, but it cannot in truth free itself therefrom. The finite appears in the infinite itself as its other, because it is only in its connection with its other, the finitie, thate the infinite is. The progress to infinity is, consequently, only the perpetual repetition of one and the same content, one and the same tedious alternation of this finite and infinite…” (Hegel 142 1969).

Freedom reconciles liberty and determination in the form of concrete autonomy or self-determination (Hegel 1967 5-7).

“…in pressing forward to its true existence, consciousness will arrive at a point where appearance becomes identical with what is only for it, and some sort of other, at a point at which it gets rid of its semblance of being burdened with something alien, with what is only for it, and some sort of other, at a point where appearance becomes identical with essences, that its exposition will coincide at just this point with the authentic Science of Spirit. And finally, when consciousness itself grasps this its own essence, it will signify the nature of absolute knowledge itself…” (Hegel 1978 §89)