Sublation

Hegelian concept

The threefold sense Hegel hears in this word: to end, to preserve, to raise to a higher stage. A sublated determination is not gone, but contained as a moment of something richer.

Not meant

Abolition. When ethical life sublates morality, conscience does not vanish — it acquires a content that it did not have from itself alone.

Developed in

Part I.4

Cross-references

Morality · Ethical Life

Nicht gemeint

Abolition. When ethical life sublates morality, conscience does not vanish — it acquires a content that it did not have from itself alone.

Warum das hier wichtig ist

Almost every transition in this book is a sublation. Whoever reads it as abolition takes Hegel for a thinker who sacrifices the individual to the whole.

Entwickelt in

Part I.4

In der logik

Enc. Vol. 1 § 96 note and § 95 — there Hegel determines the threefold meaning of the word at the transition from finitude to true infinity. Cf. [[kleine-logik:1]].