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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    and its own manifestation, &c. It is evident tliat the sort of movement involved here in this species of play between inside and outside, ground and manifestation, identity and difference, may be appropriately termed reflexion : for neither factor is, in itself, absolute, inde- pendent, isolated, &c. ; neither factor has an inde- pendent existence—both have only a relative existence, either is quite as much in its other as in itself. The ground is ground ]ViS,t because of the manifestation, and the manifestation is manifestation just because of the ground. Thus they are reciprocals, and reciprocals in unity. Again, the Notion—that is, our notion, Kant's notion, or rather now Hegel's notion—is the unity of Being and Eeflexion, or Seyn and Wesen. The cate- gories, or in their universal, the category, let us say, is as much outward as inward; it is what is, whether we look outwards or inwards ; that is, it is Seyn, Being. And again, inasmuch as m it we can look both outwards and inwards, it involves or is Eeflexion; that is, the Notion is the Unity of Being and Eeflexion. In fact, all that is wished to be said here (beginning of fourth paragraph of ' Vom Begriff im Allgemeinen'), is that the movement of Substance is manifestation of what it is in itself, and this manifestation is identical with what it is in itself, and Substance and Manifestation are just identical together and hi general: fiu^ther, that this movement of Substance is evidently identical with the movement of the Notion, and the former constitutes thus the genesis of the latter. In other words, the evo- lution of Substance through Causahty, Eeciprocity, &c., in the heads of Spinoza, Hume, and Kant terminated in the genesis of the Idea in the brain of Hegel. In short, Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, &c. are simply abs- tracted from, and the development which these and