Section 142
Original German
142 Dritter Theil.
Die Sittlichkeit.
Die Sittlichkeit ist die Idee der Freyheit, als das lebendige Gute, das in dem Selbstbewußtseyn sein Wissen, Wollen, und durch dessen Handeln seine Wirklichkeit, so wie dieses an dem sittlichen Seyn seine an und für sich seyende Grundlage und bewegenden Zweck hat, — der zur vorhandenen Welt und zur Natur des Selbstbewußtseyns gewordene Begriff der Freyheit.
Musean translation
Machine-assisted Musean translation made directly from Hegel's German in the Berlin Nicolai first edition, dated 1821. Complete preface, introduction and sections 1–360, including the author's remarks and notes; no later Gans additions.
142 Third Part.
Ethical Life.
Ethical life is the Idea of freedom as the living good, which has its knowing and willing in self-consciousness, and through the acting of self-consciousness its actuality, just as self-consciousness in turn has in ethical being its foundation, existing in and for itself, and its moving purpose—the concept of freedom become the existing world and the nature of self-consciousness.
Plain English translation
Independent machine-assisted Plain English translation made directly from the German first-edition source, not from the Musean edition or an existing English translation. Complete preface, introduction and sections 1–360 with the author's remarks and notes.
142 Part Three.
Ethical Life.
Ethical life is the Idea of freedom as the living good. It has its knowing and willing in self-consciousness, and its actuality through self-consciousness's acting. Self-consciousness in turn has its foundation, which exists in and for itself, and its moving purpose in ethical being. Ethical life is the concept of freedom that has become the existing world and the nature of self-consciousness.
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Section 142 is part of Elements of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. This page sets the German original beside 2 direct-source translations, so any line can be checked against the source. It is section 144 of 362 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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