Hegel on Greek Philosophy

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'' .....However abstract this principle might be to Leucippus, he was
anxious to make it concrete. The meaning of atom is the individual,
the indivisible; in another form the One is thus individuality, the
determination of subjectivity. The universal and, on the other side,
the individual, are great determinations which are involved in
everything, and men first know what they have in these abstract
determinations, when they recognise in the concrete that even there
they are predominant. To Leucippus and Democritus this principle,
which afterwards came to light with Epicurus, remained physical; but
it also appears in what is intellectual. Mind indeed, is also an atom
and one; but as one within itself, it is at the same time infinitely
full. In freedom, right and law, in exercising will, our only concern
is with this opposition of universality and individuality. In the
sphere of the state the point of view that the single will is, as an
atom, the absolute, may be maintained; the more modern theories of the
state which also made themselves of practical effect, are of this
kind .. ''

Mind indeed, is also an atom and one;

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