Section 320
Original German
320 Die Subjectivität, welche als Auflösung des bestehenden Staatslebens in dem seine Zufälligkeit geltend machen wollenden, und sich eben so zerstörenden Meynen und Raisonniren, ihre äußerlichste Erscheinung hat, hat ihre wahrhafte Wirklichkeit in ihrem Gegentheile, der Subjectivität, als identisch mit dem substantiellen Willen, welche den Begriff der fürstlichen Gewalt ausmacht, und welche als Idealität des Ganzen in dem bisherigen noch nicht zu ihrem Rechte und Daseyn gekommen ist.
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.
320 Subjectivity, which has its most external appearance as the dissolution of the existing life of the state in the opining and reasoning that would assert its own contingency and in doing so destroys itself, has its true actuality in its opposite, subjectivity as identical with the substantial will, which constitutes the concept of the princely power, and which, as the ideality of the whole, has not yet in what has gone before come to its right and existence.
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.
320 Subjectivity has its most external appearance as the dissolution of the existing life of the state. This happens in opining and arguing that want to assert their own chance and accident, and that thereby destroy themselves as well. Its true actuality lies in its opposite: subjectivity as identical with the substantial will. This is what makes up the concept of the power of the prince. As the ideality of the whole, it has not yet come into its right and existence in what has been discussed so far.
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Section 320 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 322 of 362 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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