{"id":5520,"date":"2010-04-16T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:28:09","slug":"5520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/04\/16\/5520\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the unchangeable consciousness <em>renounces<\/em> and <em>surrenders<\/em> its embodied form, while, on the other hand, the particular individual consciousness <em>gives thanks <\/em>[for the gift], i.e. <em>denies<\/em> itself the satisfaction of being conscious of its <em>independence<\/em>, and assigns the essence of its action not to itself but to the beyond, through these two moments of <em>reciprocal self-surrender<\/em> of both parts, consciousness does, of course, gain a sense of its <em>unity<\/em> with the Unchangeable.\u00a0 But this unity is at the same time affected with division, is again broken within itself, and from it there emerges once more the antithesis of the universal and the individual. For though consciousness renounces the <em>show<\/em> of satisfying its feeling of self, it obtains the <em>actual<\/em> satisfaction of it; for it <em>has been<\/em> desire, work, and enjoyment; as consciousness it has <em>willed, acted, <\/em>and <em>enjoyed. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Consciousness feels itself therein as this particular individual, and does not let itself be deceived by its own seeming renunciation, for the truth of the matter is that it has <em>not<\/em> renounced itself. What has been brought about is only the double reflection into the two extremes; and the result is the renewed division into the opposed consciousness of the <em>Unchangeable<\/em>, and the consciousness of willing, performing, and enjoying, and self-renunciation itself, which <em>confronts<\/em> it; in other words, the consciousness of <em> independent individuality<\/em> in general.\u00a0 <em>(Phenmenology of Spirit para 222)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that the unchangeable consciousness renounces and surrenders its embodied form, while, on the other hand, the particular individual consciousness gives thanks [for the gift], i.e. denies itself the satisfaction of being conscious of its independence, and assigns the essence of its action not to itself but to the beyond, through these two moments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/04\/16\/5520\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,100],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-hegel","tag-psychiclife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5524,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions\/5524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}