ABSTRACT
The simple substantial identity of the absolute is indeterminate, or rather in it every determinateness of essence and Existence, or of being in general, as well as of reflection, has dissolved itself. This positive exposition of the absolute is therefore itself only an illusory activity, a reflective movement; for what is truly positive in the exposition and the expounded content, is the absolute itself. The attribute is the merely relative absolute, a connexion which signifies simply the absolute in a form determination. Corresponding to the Notion of the absolute and to the relation of reflection to it, as expounded here, is the notion of substance in Spinozism. Spinozism is a defective philosophy because in it reflection and its manifold determining is an external thinking. The lack of reflection into self, from which both the Spinozistic exposition of the absolute and the emanation theory suffer, is made good in the notion of the Leibnizian monad.
