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Actuality (Wirklichkeit)
?- 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)
- 1231 The Absolute
- 1232 Actuality as such
- 1233 Absolute Relation
Actuality
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Not mere facticity ("that which is there"), but the unity of essence and existence, of inner and outer. "Wirklichkeit" comes from "wirken" (to act, to work) --- the actual is that which produces effects, that which shows itself as a force. Immediate actuality is at first only a claimed unity --- it must prove itself through the moments of possibility, contingency, and necessity. Only proven actuality is genuine actuality. Example: a friendship is actual only once it has proven itself in crisis. Before that, it is only a claim.
Origin: Traditionally: actuality = existence. Hegel: actuality as the fulfilled concept. The famous saying "What is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational" means: grounded actuality, not mere facticity.
In Hegel: Enz. §142-149; Science of Logic, Vol. 2, Actuality
Cross-references: Necessity, Existence, Truth, Possibility, Contingency, Proving (Bewährung)