Section 182
Original German
Zweyter Abschnitt.
Die bürgerliche Gesellschaft.
182 Die concrete Person, welche sich als Besondere Zweck ist, als ein Ganzes von Bedürfnissen und eine Vermischung von Naturnothwendigkeit und Willkühr, ist das eine Princip der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft, — aber die besondere Person als wesentlich in Beziehung auf andere solche Besonderheit, so daß jede durch die andere und zugleich schlechthin nur als durch die Form der Allgemeinheit, das andere Princip, vermittelt sich geltend macht und befriedigt.
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.
Second Division
Civil Society
182 The concrete person, who as particular is his own purpose, a whole of needs and a compound of natural necessity and arbitrary choice, is the one principle of civil society—but the particular person, as essentially in relation to another such particularity, so that each asserts and satisfies himself through the other and at the same time absolutely only as mediated by the form of universality—which is the other principle.
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.
Second Division
Civil Society
182 The concrete person, who is a particular end to himself, is one principle of civil society. He is a whole made up of needs and a mixture of natural necessity and arbitrary choice. But this particular person essentially relates to other particular persons of the same kind. Each can assert himself and find satisfaction only through the others and, at the same time, only through the form of universality, the second principle.
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Section 182 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 184 of 362 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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