Section 360
Original German
360 Indem in dem harten Kampfe dieser im Unterschiede, der hier seine absolute Entgegensetzung gewonnen, stehenden und zugleich in Einer Einheit und Idee wurzelnden Reiche, — das Geistliche die Existenz seines Himmels zum irdischen Diesseits und zur gemeinen Weltlichkeit, in der Wirklichkeit und in der Vorstellung, degradirt, — das Weltliche dagegen sein abstractes Fürsichseyn zum Gedanken und dem Principe vernünftigen Seyns und Wissens, zur Vernünftigkeit des Rechts und Gesetzes hinaufbildet, ist an sich der Gegensatz zur marklosen Gestalt geschwunden; die Gegenwart hat ihre Barbarey und unrechtliche Willkühr und die Wahrheit hat ihr Jenseits und ihre zufällige Gewalt abgestreift, so daß die wahrhafte Versöhnung objectiv geworden, welche den Staat zum Bilde und zur Wirklichkeit der Vernunft entfaltet, worin das Selbstbewußtseyn die Wirklichkeit seines substantiellen Wissens und Wollens in organischer Entwickelung, wie in der Religion das Gefühl und die Vorstellung dieser seiner Wahrheit als idealer Wesenheit, in der Wissenschaft aber die freye begriffene Erkenntniß dieser Wahrheit als Einer und derselben in ihren sich ergänzenden Manifestationen, dem Staate, der Natur und der ideellen Welt, findet.
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.
360 In the hard struggle of these realms, which stand in the difference that has here won its absolute opposition and yet are rooted in one unity and Idea, the spiritual degrades the existence of its heaven into an earthly here-and-now and common worldliness, in actuality and in representation, while the worldly, on the contrary, builds its abstract being-for-itself up into thought and into the principle of rational being and knowing, into the rationality of right and law; and so the opposition has in itself vanished into a shape without marrow. The present has shed its barbarism and wrongful arbitrary will, and truth has shed its beyond and its contingent violence, so that true reconciliation has become objective, which unfolds the state as the image and actuality of reason, in which self-consciousness finds the actuality of its substantial knowing and willing in organic development, as in religion it finds the feeling and representation of this its truth as ideal essentiality, and in science the free, conceived cognition of this truth as one and the same in its mutually complementary manifestations, the state, nature, and the ideal world.
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.
360 These two realms stand in hard struggle. In it their difference has reached absolute opposition, and yet they are rooted in one unity and one idea. In this struggle, the spiritual realm lowers the existence of its heaven to an earthly here and now and to common worldliness, both in actuality and in imagination. The worldly realm, on the other hand, builds its abstract being-for-itself up into thought and into the principle of rational being and knowing, into the rationality of right and law. As a result, the opposition has in itself faded into a form without substance. The present has shed its barbarism and its unjust arbitrary choice. Truth has shed its beyond and its accidental force. So true reconciliation has become objective. It unfolds the state as the image and the actuality of reason. In the state, self-consciousness finds the actuality of its substantial knowing and willing, in organic development. In religion it finds the feeling and imagination of this, its truth, as an ideal essence. In science it finds the free, conceptual knowledge of this truth, as one and the same truth in its mutually complementing manifestations: the state, nature and the ideal world.
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