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[R Srivatsan]

801.  Comment:  What then is this concept here?  The concept is the I that comprehends reality in terms of the interplay between the universal, the particular and the individual (i.e., how an abstract form of knowing is mediated by context to come at an actual, specific result). This I that so comprehends is an I that grasps the knowledge of that reality-context-universality, and also how that particular synthesis is a correlate of its own self.

Hegel here says that the Being-there of this concept, i.e., its existence as an explicit form is as yet unborn -- it is utterly new, waiting in the wings.  The being-there of the concept is its logical actuality in its fully known form. This, Hegel says, cannot come into being until Spirit knows that it is this thinking of the I which relates the universal-particular-singular in its dialectical unity.  

It (this concept) comes into existence (not "earlier, and nowhere else") only after it has laboured the mastering of its imperfect configurations or patterns of consciousness thus far.  When it finally does so, it sees that its see-sawing between the objective and the subjective -- what is being-there and its own thought of it are integrally related to each other.  The subject and object cannot exist without each other.  This is the integral relationship between consciousness and self-consciousness.

At this point, the individual form of Spirit that is in-and-for-itself as logically seen in its moments (the constituents of the I as self-consciousness) is a knowledge that is for-itself, i.e., individual.  It is a comprehension that has not yet grasped the dimension of substance and is thus as yet at the threshold of becoming absolute knowledge.

Srivats

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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning – devotion to individuals, to groups or to causes, social, political, intellectual or creative work … in old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves. One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir 

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Sorry, there is a numbering error here.  The in text numbering should be 800, as in the subject line.