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Condition
?- 0 Hegel's 'System of Science'
- 1 Logic (Thinking of Thinking, Science of Science)
- 2 Nature (science of matter)
- 3 Spirit/Mind (Science of humanities)
- 11 Being (immediateness, 'Ontology')
- 12 Essence (mediation, reflection, metaphysics)
- 13 Concept (Notion / Logos / Comprehension, 'Begriff')
- 121 Essence as Reflection Within Itself
- 122 Appearance (Erscheinung)
- 123 Actuality (Wirklichkeit)
- 1211 Shine ('Schein')
- 1212 The Essentialities
- 1213 Ground (the reason, 'Grund')
- 12131 Absolute Ground
- 12132 Determined Ground/Reason
- 12133 Condition
- 121331 Relatively unconditional/absolute
- 121332 Absolutely unconditional/absolute
- 121333 Coming into the existence
Condition
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The condition is the presupposed that must be fulfilled for something to become actual. But --- and this is Hegel's point --- conditions are not externally added, but belong to the ground itself.
Origin: *Conditio* (Lat. condition). Aristotle: potency needs external movement for actualization. Spinoza: everything follows from substance with necessity (no external conditions). Hegel mediates: conditions are moments of self-realizing necessity.
In Hegel: Enc. §146-148; SL Vol. 2, Actuality
Cross-references: Ground, Possibility, Actuality, Necessity, Logic of Essence