ABSTRACT
The absolute Idea has shown itself to be the identity of the theoretical and the practical Idea. The absolute Idea, as the rational Notion that in its reality meets only with itself, is by virtue of this immediacy of its objective identity, on the one hand the return to life, but it has no less sublated this form of its immediacy, and contains within itself the highest degree of opposition. Nature and spirit are in general different modes of presenting its existence, art and religion its different modes of apprehending itself and giving itself an adequate existence. Philosophy has the same content and the same end as art and religion, but it is the highest mode of apprehending the absolute Idea, because its mode is the highest mode, the Notion. The logical Idea is the Idea itself in its pure essence, the Idea enclosed in simple identity within its Notion prior to its immediate reflection in a form-determinateness.
