ABSTRACT
The forgiveness it extends to the first is the renuncia tion of self, of its unreal being, since it identifies this unreal nature and that other element of real action, and recognises what was called bad-a determination assigned to action by thought-to be good; or rather it lets go and gives up this distinction of determinate thought with its self-determining isolated judgment, just as the other foregoes determining the act in isolation and for its own private behoof. The word of reconciliation is the objectively existent spirit, which sees and imme diately apprehends the pure knowledge of itself qua universal being in its opposite, in the pure knowledge of itself qua absolutely self-confined single individuala reciprocal recognition which is Absolute Spirit.
