Section 230
Original German
230 C. Die Polizei und Corporation.
Im System der Bedürfnisse ist die Subsistenz und das Wohl jedes Einzelnen als eine Möglichkeit, deren Wirklichkeit durch seine Willkühr und natürliche Besonderheit, eben so als durch das objective System der Bedürfnisse bedingt ist; durch die Rechtspflege wird die Verletzung des Eigenthums und der Persönlichkeit getilgt. Das in der Besonderheit wirkliche Recht enthält aber sowohl, daß die Zufälligkeiten gegen den einen und den anderen Zweck aufgehoben seyen, und die ungestörte Sicherheit der Person und des Eigenthums bewirkt, als daß die Sicherung der Subsistenz und des Wohls der Einzelnen, — daß das besondere Wohl als Recht behandelt und verwirklicht sey.
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.
C. Police and Corporation
230 In the system of needs, the subsistence and welfare of each individual is a possibility, whose actuality is conditioned as much by his arbitrary choice and natural particularity as by the objective system of needs; through the administration of justice, the violation of property and personality is expunged. But right actual in particularity contains both that the contingencies in the way of this end or that be sublated, and that the undisturbed security of person and property be brought about, and also that there be securing of the subsistence and welfare of individuals — that particular welfare be treated and realized as right.
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.
230 C. The Police and the Corporation.
In the system of needs, the subsistence and well-being of each individual is a possibility. Its actuality is conditioned by his arbitrary choice and natural particularity, and equally by the objective system of needs. Through the administration of justice, the violation of property and personality is wiped out. But right that is actual in particularity contains two things. One is that accidents working against one purpose or another are removed, and that the undisturbed security of person and property is brought about. The other is the securing of the subsistence and well-being of individuals, so that particular well-being is treated and realized as a right.
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