ABSTRACT
The development of spirit is indicated in the immediately preceding movement of mind, where the object of consciousness, the category pure and simple, rose to be the notion of reason. When reason 'observes', this pure unity of ego and existence, the unity of subjectivity and objectivity, of for-itself-ness and in-itself-ness this unity is imminent, has the character of implicitness or of being; and consciousness of reason finds itself. Spirit is the self of the actual consciousness, to which spirit stands opposed, or rather which appears over against itself, as an objective actual world that has lost, however, all sense of strangeness for the self, just as the self has lost all sense of having a dependent or independent existence by itself, cut off and separated from that world. Spirit, so far as it is the immediate truth, is the ethical life of a nation:-the individual, which is a world.
