Being-in-Itself (An-sich-Sein)

Hegel (Logic of Being & throughout)

Being as it is independent of our relation to it. Not "in itself" in the sense of "alone," but "in itself" in the sense of "according to its own nature." A first, immediate determination that still has to be developed.

Origin

Kant distinguishes the thing-in-itself (unknowable) from appearance (knowable). Hegel makes this dynamic: being-in-itself is the seed that becomes being-for-itself.

In Hegel

Enz. §91 (Remark); Science of Logic, Vol. 1, Quality

Cross-references

Being-for-Self · Being-in-and-for-itself · Unmittelbar · Sein-für-Anderes

Im buch

Chap. 1.6