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桃桃逃 更新:2022-08-21 16:33 字数:9311
The Judgment is usually taken in a subjective sense as an operation and a form;
occurring merely in self…conscious thought。 This distinction; however; has no
existence on purely by which the judgment is taken in the quite universal
signification that all things are a judgment。 That is to say; they are individuals
which are a universality or inner nature in themselves … a universal which is
individualised。 Their universality and individuality are distinguished; but the one is
at the same time identical with the other。
The interpretation of the judgment; according to which it is assumed to be merely
subjective; as if we ascribed a predicate to a subject is contradicted by the
decidedly objective expression of the judgment。 The rose is red; Gold is a metal。
It is not by us that something is first ascribed to them。 A judgment is however
distinguished from a proposition。 The latter contains a statement about the
subject; which does not stand to it in any universal relationship; but expresses
some single action; or some state; or the like。 Thus; 'Caesar was born at Rome in
such and such a year waged war in Gaul for ten years; crossed the Rubicon; etc。';
are propositions; but not judgments。 Again it is absurd to say that such statements
as 'I slept well last night' or 'Present arms!' maybe turned into the form of a
judgment。 'A carriage is passing by' should be a judgment; and a subjective one at
best; only if it were doubtful; whether the passing object was a carriage; or
whether it and not rather the point of observation was in motion: in short; only if
it were desired to specify a conception which was still short of appropriate
specification。
§ 168
The judgment is an expression of finitude。 Things from its point of view are said
to be finite; because they are a judgment; because their definite being and their
universal nature (their body and their soul); though united indeed (otherwise the
things would be nothing); are still elements in the constitution which are already
different and also in any case separable。
§ 169
The abstract terms of the judgment; 'The individual is the Universal'; present the
subject (as negatively self…relating) as what is immediately concrete; while the
predicate is what is abstract; indeterminate; in short; the universal。 But the two
elements are connected together by an 'is': and thus the predicate (in its
universality) must also contain the speciality of the subject; must; in short; have
particularity: and so is realised the identity between subject and predicate; which;
being thus unaffected by this difference in form; is the content。
It is the predicate which first gives the subject; which till then was on its own
account a bare mental representation or an empty name; its specific character and
content。 In judgments like 'God is the most real of all things'; or 'The Absolute is
the self…identical'; God and the Absolute are mere names; what they are we only
learn in the predicate。 What the subject may be in other respects; as a concrete
thing; is no concern of this judgment。 (Cf。 § 31。)
§ 169n
To define the subject as that of which something is said; and the predicate as what is said about it;
is mere trifling。 It gives no information about the distinction between the two。 In point of thought;
the subject is primarily the individual; and the predicate the universal。 As the judgment receives
further development; the subject ceases to be merely the immediate individual; and the predicate
merely the abstract universal: the former acquires the additional significations of particular and
universal; the latter the additional significations of particular and individual。 Thus while the same
names are given to the two terms of the judgment; their meaning passes through a series of
changes。
§ 170
We now go closer into the speciality of subject and predicate。 The subject as
negative self…relation (§§ 163; 166) is the stable sub…stratum in which the
predicate has its subsistence and where it is ideally present。 The predicate; as the
phrase is; inheres in the subject。 Further; as the subject is in general and
immediately concrete; the specific connotation of the predicate is only one of the
numerous characters of the subject。 Thus the subject is ampler and wider than
the predicate。
Conversely; the predicate as universal is self…subsistent; and indifferent whether
this subject is or not。 The predicate outflanks the subject; subsuming it under
itself: and hence on its side is wider than the subject。 The specific content of the
predicate (§ 19) alone constitutes the identity of the two。
The Judgment (continued) …The Syllogism
Transition to the Object
§ 193
This 'realisation' of the Notion … a realisation in which the universal is this one
totality withdrawn back into itself (of which different members are no less the
whole; and which has given itself a character of 'immediate' unity by merging the
mediation) … this realisation of the notion is the Object。
This transition from the Subject; the notion in general; and especially the
syllogism; to the Object; may; at the first glance; appear strange; particularly if we
look only at the Syllogism of Understanding; and suppose syllogising to be only
an act of consciousness; 。。。 whether our usual conception of what is called an
'object' approximately corresponds to the object as here described。 By 'object' is
commonly understood not an abstract being; or an existing thing merely; or any
sort of actuality; but something independent; concrete; and self…complete; this
completeness being the totality of the notion。 That the object is also an object to
us and is external to something else; will be more precisely seen when it puts itself
in contrast with the subjective。 At present; as that into which the notion has
passed from its mediation; it is only immediate object and nothing more; just as
the notion is not describable as subjective; previous to the subsequent contrast
with objectivity。 ?
Further; the Object in general is the one total; in itself still unspecified; the
Objective World as a whole; God; the Absolute Object。 The object; however; has
also difference attaching to it: it falls into pieces; indefinite in their multiplicity
(making an objective world); and each of these individualised parts is also an
object; an intrinsically concrete; complete; and independent existence。
Objectivity has been compared with being; existence; and actuality; and so too the
transition to existence and actuality (not to being; for it is the primary and quite
abstract immediate) may be compared with the transition to objectivity。 The
ground from which existence proceeds; and the reflective correlation which is
merged in actuality; are nothing but the as yet imperfectly realised notion。 They
are only abstract aspects of it — the ground being its merely essence…bred unity;
and the correlation only the connection of real sides which are supposed to have
only self…reflected being。 The notion is the unity of the two; and the object is not
a merely essence…like; but inherently universal unity; not only containing real
distinctions; but containing them as totalities in itself。
It is evident that in all these transitions there is a further purpose than merely to
show the indissoluble connection between the notion or thought and being。 It has
been more than once remarked that being is nothing more than simple
self…relation; and this meagre category is certainly implied in the notion; or even in
thought。 But the; meaning of these transitions is not to accept characteristics or
categories; as only implied — a fault which mars even the Ontological argument
for God's existence; when it is stated that being is one among realities。 What such
a transition does; is to take the notion; as it ought to be primarily characterised
per se as a notion; with which this remote abstraction of being; or even of
objectivity; has as yet nothing to do; and looking at its specific character as a
notional character alone; to see when and whether it passes over into a form
which is different from the character as it belongs to the notion and appears in it。
If the Object; the product of this transition; be brought into relation with the
notion; which; so far as its special form is concerned; has vanished in it; we may
give a correct expression to the result; by saying that notion (or; if it be preferred;
subjectivity) and object are implicitly the same。 But it is equally correct to say
that they are different。 In short; the two modes of expression are equally correct
and incorrect。 The true state of the case can be presented in no expressions of
this find。 The 'implicit' is an abstraction; still more partial and inadequate than the
notion itself; of which the inadequacy is on the whole suspended; by suspending
itself to the object with its opposite inadequacy。 Hence that implicitness also
must; by its negation; give itself t