Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and m… - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In immediate self-consciousness the simple ego is absolute object, which, however, is for us or in itself absolute mediation, and has as its essential moment substantial and solid independence. The dissolution of that simple unity is the result of the first experience; through this there is posited a pure self-consciousness, and a consciousness which is not purely for itself, but for another, i.e. as an existent consciousness, consciousness in the form and shape of thinghood. Both moments are essential, since, in the first instance, they are unlike and opposed, and their reflexion into unity has not yet come to light, they stand as two opposed forms or modes of consciousness. The one is independent whose essential nature is to be for itself, the other is dependent whose essence is life or existence for another. The former is the Master, or Lord, the latter is the Bondsman.

La representación coincide aquí con el entendimiento, el cual se distingue de la representación solamente en que éste sienta relaciones de necesidad entre las determinaciones aisladas de la representación, mientras que ésta deja aquellas determinaciones una junto a otra dentro de su espacio indeterminado, ligadas por el mero «también». — La distinción entre representación y pensamiento tiene mayor importancia para nuestro asunto, porque se puede decir sencillamente que la filosofía no hace otra cosa que transformar representaciones en pensamientos, pero además desde luego, transforma los meros pensamientos en concepto.

In a state which is really articulated rationally all the laws and organizations are nothing but a realization of freedom in its essential characteristics. When this is the case, the individual’s reason finds in these institutions, only the actuality of his own essence, and if he obeys these laws, he coincides, not with something alien to himself, but simply with what is his own. Freedom of choice, of course, is often equally called ‘freedom’; but freedom of choice is only non-rational freedom, choice and self-determination issuing not from the rationality of the will but from fortuitous impulses and their dependence on sense and the external world.