ABSTRACT
IN the consciousness of the individual the higher categories are realized only as what are already existing. But do the lower categories, too, exist similarly? Hegel seems to give an affirmative answer. For him the Absolute implies the world, God implies man. Besides, in the Logic he says that the Absolute Idea particularizes itself into the system of specific ideas by an act of judgment.1 Yet we may start even from Being which makes a judgment, and by putting itself thus as its own other rises to higher and higher categories.2 This means not only that the lower implies the higher, but also that the higher implies the lower. And if the position is not admitted, Hegel could not have said to have preserved the lower categories in the higher.
