第 37 节
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匆匆 更新:2021-02-27 02:11 字数:9322
shows that the abstract product itself is a unity of the individual content and abstract universality;
and is; therefore; a concrete … and the opposite of what it aims to be。
2。 But Individuality is not only the return of the Notion into itself; it immediately its loss。 Through
individuality; where the Notion is internal to itself; it becomes external to itself and enters into
actuality。 Abstraction which; as the soul of individuality is the relation of the negative to the
negative; and; as we have shown not external to the universal and the particular but immanent in
them; and through it they are concrete; content; an individual。 But as this negativity; individuality is
the determinate determinateness; is differentiation as such; through this reflection of the difference
into itself; the difference becomes fixed; it is only through individuality that the determining of the
particular takes place; for individuality is that abstraction which simply as individuality; is now
posited abstraction。
The individual; therefore; as self…related negativity; is immediate identity of the negative with itself;
it is a being…for…self。 Or it is the abstraction that determines the Notion; according to its ideal
moment of being; as an immediate。 In this way; the individual is a qualitative one or this。 With
this quality it is; first; repulsion of itself from itself; whereby the many other ones are presupposed;
secondly; it is now a negative relation towards these presupposed others; and; the individual is in
so far exclusive。
When one understands by the universal; that which is common to several individuals; one is
starting from the indifferent subsistence of these individuals and confounding the immediacy of
being with the determination of the Notion。 The lowest possible conception of the universal in its
connection with the individual is this external relation of it as merely a common element。
Chapter 2 The Judgment
The judgment is the determinateness of the Notion posited in the Notion itself。 The Notion's
determinations; or what we have seen to be the same thing; the determinate Notions; have already
been considered on their own; but this consideration was more a subjective reflection or
subjective abstraction。 But the Notion is itself this abstractive process; the opposing of its
determinations is its own determining activity。 The judgment is this positing of the determinate
Notions by the Notion itself。 Judging is thus another function than comprehension; or rather it is
the other function of the Notion as the determining of the Notion by itself; and the further
progress of the judgment into the diversity of judgments is the progressive determination of the
Notion。 What kinds of determinate Notions there are; and how these determinations of the
Notion are arrived at; has to reveal itself in the judgment。
The judgment can therefore be called the proximate realisation of the Notion; inasmuch as reality
denotes in general entry into existence as a determinate being。 More precisely; the nature of this
realisation has presented itself in such a manner that; on the one hand; the moments of the Notion
through its reflection…into…self or its individuality are self…subsistent totalities; while on the other
hand the unity of the Notion is their relation。 The determinations reflected into themselves are
determinate totalities; no less essentially in their indifferent and disconnected subsistence as
through their reciprocal mediation with one another。 The determining itself is only totality in that it
contains these totalities and their connection。 This totality is the judgment。 It contains; therefore;
first; the two self…subsistents which are called subject and predicate。 What each is cannot yet
really be said; they are still indeterminate; for it is only through the judgment that they are to be
determined。 The judgment; being the Notion as determinate; the only distinction present is the
general one that the judgment contains the determinate Notion over against the still
indeterminate Notion。 The subject can therefore; in the first instance; be taken in relation to the
predicate as the individual over against the universal; or even as the particular over against the
universal; or as the individual over against the particular; so far; they confront each other only in
general; as the more determinate and the more universal。
It is therefore appropriate and necessary to have these names; subject and predicate for the
determinations of the judgment; as names; they are something indeterminate that still awaits its
determination; and are; therefore; no more than names。 It is partly for this reason that the Notion
determinations themselves could not be used for the two sides of the judgment; but a stronger
reason is because the nature of the Notion determination is emphatically to be; not something
abstract and fixed; but to have and to posit its opposite within it; since the sides of the judgment
are themselves Notions and therefore the totality of its determinations; each side must run through
all these determinations and exhibit them within itself; whether in abstract or concrete form。 Now
in order to fix the sides of the judgment in a general way when their determination is altered; those
names are most serviceable which remain the same throughout the alteration。 The name however
stands over against the matter in hand or the Notion; this distinction presents itself in the judgment
as such; now the subject is in general the determinate; and is therefore more that which
immediately is; whereas the predicate expresses the universal; the essential nature or the Notion;
therefore the subject as such is; in the first instance; only a kind of name; for what it is is first
enunciated by the predicate which contains being in the sense of the Notion。 In the question: what
is this? or: what kind of a plant is this? what is often understood by the being enquired after; is
merely the name; and when this is learned one is satisfied and now knows what the thing is。 This is
being in the sense of the subject。 But the Notion; or at least the essence and the universal in
general; is first given by the predicate; and it is this that is asked for in the sense of the judgment。
Consequently; God; spirit; nature; or whatever it may be; is as the subject of a judgment at first
only the name; what such a subject is as regards its Notion is first enunciated in the predicate。
When enquiry is made as to the kind of predicate belonging to such subject; the act of judgment
necessarily implies an underlying Notion。 But this Notion is first enunciated by the predicate itself。
Properly speaking; therefore; it is the mere general idea that constitutes the presupposed meaning
of the subject and that leads to the naming of it; and in doing this it is contingent and a historical
fact; what is; or is not; to be understood by a name。 So many disputes about whether a predicate
does or does not belong to a certain subject are therefore nothing more than verbal disputes;
because they start from the form above mentioned; what lies at the base is so far nothing more
than the name。
We have now to examine; secondly; how the relation of subject and predicate in the judgment is
determined and how subject and predicate themselves are at first determined through this very
relation。 The judgment has in general for its sides totalities which to begin with are essentially
self…subsistent。 The unity of the Notion is; therefore; at first only a relation of self…subsistents; not
as yet the concrete and pregnant unity that has returned into itself from this reality; but only a
unity outside which the self…subsistent sides persist as extremes that are not sublated in it。 Now
consideration of the judgment can begin from the original unity of the Notion; or from the
self…subsistence of the extremes。 The judgment is the self…diremption of the Notion; this unity is;
therefore; the ground from which the consideration of the judgment in accordance with its true
objectivity begins。 It is thus the original division 'Teilung' of what is originally one; thus the
word Urteil refers to what judgment is in and for itself。 But regarded from the side of externality;
the Notion is present in the judgment as Appearance; since its moments therein attain
self…subsistence; and it is on this external side that ordinary thinking tends to fasten。
From this subjective standpoint; then; subject and predicate are considered to be complete; each
on its own account; apart from the other: the subject as an object that would exist even if it did not
possess this predicate; the predicate as a universal determination that would exist even if it did not
belong to this subject。 From this standpoint; the act of judgment involves the reflection; whether
this or that predicate which is in someone's head can and should be attached to the object which
exists on its own account outside; the very act of judging consists in this; that only through it is a
predicate combined with a subject; so that; if this combination did not take place; each on its own
would still remain what it is; the latter an existent object; the former an idea in someone's