Section 359
Original German
359 Die Innerlichkeit des Prinzips, als die noch abstracte, in Empfindung als Glauben Liebe und Hoffnung existirende, Versöhnung und Lösung alles Gegensatzes, entfaltet ihren Inhalt, ihn zur Wirklichkeit und selbstbewußten Vernünftigkeit zu erheben, zu einem vom Gemüthe, der Treue und Genossenschaft Freyer ausgehenden weltlichen Reiche, das in dieser seiner Subjectivität eben so ein Reich der für sich seyenden rohen Willkühr und der Barbarey der Sitten ist — gegenüber einer jenseitigen Welt, einem intellectuellen Reiche, dessen Inhalt wohl jene Wahrheit seines Geistes, aber als noch ungedacht in die Barbarey der Vorstellung gehüllt ist, und als geistige Macht über das wirkliche Gemüth, sich als eine unfreye fürchterliche Gewalt gegen dasselbe verhält.
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.
359 The inwardness of the principle, as still abstract reconciliation and resolution of all opposition, existing in feeling as faith, love, and hope, unfolds its content, to raise it to actuality and self-conscious rationality, into a worldly realm proceeding from disposition of heart, fidelity, and the fellowship of free men, which in this its subjectivity is just as much a realm of crude arbitrary will existing for itself and of barbarism of customs—over against a world beyond, an intellectual realm, whose content is indeed that truth of its spirit, but, still unthought, is wrapped in the barbarism of representation, and, as a spiritual power over the actual disposition of heart, behaves toward it as an unfree, terrible violence.
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.
359 The inwardness of the principle is still abstract. It exists in feeling, as faith, love and hope, and it is the reconciliation and resolution of every opposition. It unfolds its content in order to raise it to actuality and self-conscious rationality, to a worldly realm that starts from the disposition of the heart, from loyalty and from the fellowship of free people. In this very subjectivity, that realm is equally a realm of crude arbitrary choice that exists for itself, and of barbarous customs. Against it stands a world beyond, an intellectual realm. Its content does contain that truth of spirit, but still unthought, wrapped in the barbarism of imagination. As a spiritual power over the actual heart, it relates to the heart as an unfree and fearful force.
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Section 359 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 361 of 362 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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