ABSTRACT
The ‘becoming essential of the accident’ describes the Greek moment of subjectivity, as interpreted by Hegel. It is a moment marked ontologically by its insistence on the first part of the speculative proposition: the substance-subject. Within this process, one that assumes a mutual giving of form from spirit to its example and vice versa, the role of man is clearly decisive, but not fundamental. If Hegel had granted man such a substantive ontological status, there would only remain an anthropological conception of substance. Yet the entire Anthropology is devoted to destroying such a status.
