Volume 1

The secret of Hegel : being the Hegelian system in origin, principle, form, and matter / by James Hutchison Stirling.

Date:
1865
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    of particularisation, and as soon, finally, to Hegel, or the stage of complete and total reconciliatioji and in- sight—the stage of singularisation, which is the stage also of the restoration of immediacy by the sublation of mediacy (the negation of the negation, or, what is the same thing, commediation with self). lieciprocity on this last stage, being developed to its issues, is now the Idea, which one word expresses the resolution of objectivity in reciprocity with subjectivity and of sub- jectivity in reciprocity with objectivity into the concrete reciprocity of the notion, the logical notion, the notion as notion, which is itself a reciprocity, and the ultimate reciprocity of universahty, particularity, and singularity. All this, of course, is very hard to realise to understand- ing ; but, after a due analysis both of Kant and Hegel, the desu'ed ' light' will always ' go up ' to honest labour. All this can be said differently; it is all capable of being expressed in the Aristotelian formula that relates to Eorm, Matter, and perfect Actualisation. The ouva- fjLic, uXt], and svTcXs^sia * of Aristotle amount pre- cisely to the Begriff, Urtheil, and Schluss of Hegel. In fact, aU that is said in Hegel is but the smgle principle involved in this formula, in one or other of its innu- merable forms : always and everywhere with him and in him we have to do wholly and solely with the resultant unity of a triple reciprocity. And in this, it may be, Hegel has hit an essential, or the essential secret * Dr. Thomas Brown was talking ' Actuality;' but it is, perhaps, of the ' mystic Entelecheia' of Ari- doubtful whether they yet under- stotle as something unfathomable stand it in this way—that the acorn at a time when it had been familiar is Form, the elements it absorbs to Hegel at least for some years, are Matter, and the consummation Later English lexicons profess to of both in the perfect oak is the convey it perfectly by the word Entelechy.