ABSTRACT
Absolute indifference is the final determination of being before it becomes essence; but it does not attain to essence. Being is the abstract equivalence for which, since it is to be thought of by itself as being, the expression indifference has been employed-in which there is supposed to be as yet no determinateness of any kind. Pure quantity is indifference as open to all determinations provided that these are external to it and that quantity has no immanent connection with them. According to the stated qualitative determinateness, the difference is present, further, as two qualities, one of which is sublated by the other; but because both are held in a unity which they together constitute, neither is separable from the other. Absolute indifference is the final determination of being before it becomes essence; but it does not attain to essence.
