The Phenomenon of Spirit - 03

The force which is solicited请求 by another force likewise★同样地 

is soliciting this other force, which itself thereby becomes a 

soliciting force.

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What is present within this play is just the immediate flux连续的改变, 

or the absolute exchange of determinateness which constitutes the 

sole content of what is coming on the scene: to be either a universal 

medium or a negative unity. 

Universal attraction, or the pure concept of law, thereby 

stands over and against determinate确定的 laws. Insofar as this pure 

concept is regarded as the essence, or, the true inner, the 

determinateness itself of determinate laws still belongs to 

appearance, or rather it belongs to sensuous being.

If, positive electricity is posited,

then negative electricity in itself is also necessary, for 

the positive is only as a relation to the negative.

The indifference of law and force,or of concept and being,is present

in yet another way than that already indicated. 

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In the law of motion, for example, it is necessary that motion

be divided into time and space, or else then into distance and 

velocity★速率. While motion is only the relation of those moments, 

motion, or the universal, is here divided in itself. 

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However, these parts, time and 

space, or distance and velocity, do not now express in

themselves this origination out of one universal.

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They are indifferent to each other. Space is represented as being 

able to be without time, time without space, and distance at least 

without velocity – in the same way that their magnitudes★大小/量级 are 

indifferent to each other while they do not relate to each

other as positive and negative and thus are not related to 

each other through their essence. 

motion itself

is not represented as simple essence or as pure essence, but 

rather as already divided. 

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Time and space are its self-sufficient parts, or essences in themselves, 

or distance and velocity are ways of being or of representational thinking,

where any one of them can be just as well without the other. 

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Motion is thus only their superficial relation, not their essence. 

Represented as simple essence, or as force, motion is indeed gravity, 

which does not, however,contain these differences at all within itself.

The movement is an explanation which not only explains nothing, but is, 

rather, so clear that as it makes a move to say something different 

from what has already been said, it says instead nothing at all and 

only repeats the same thing.