Section 41
Original German
Erster Abschnitt.
Das Eigenthum.
41 Die Person muß sich eine äußere Sphäre ihrer Freyheit geben, um als Idee zu seyn. Weil die Person der an und für sich seyende unendliche Wille in dieser ersten noch ganz abstracten Bestimmung ist, so ist dieß von ihm Unterschiedene, was die Sphäre seiner Freyheit ausmachen kann, gleichfalls als das von ihm unmittelbar Verschiedene und Trennbare bestimmt.
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.
First Division.
Property.
41 The person must give themselves an external sphere of their freedom in order to exist as Idea. Since the person is the infinite will that is in and for itself, in this first, still wholly abstract determination, what is distinct from this will and can constitute the sphere of its freedom is likewise determined as what is immediately different and separable from it.
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.
First Division
Property
41 The person must give themselves an external sphere of freedom in order to exist as Idea. In this first, still entirely abstract determination, the person is the infinite will that is in and for itself. So what is distinct from that will and can form the sphere of its freedom is likewise determined as something immediately different and separable from it.
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