Immediate / Mediated

Hegel (throughout)

Not meant temporally (first immediate, then mediated), but logically. The immediate is the seemingly simple, presuppositionless. The mediated is that which is determined by something else. But: the truly immediate is mediated (through the sublation of mediation). Truth is *mediated immediacy*.

Origin

Traditionally: immediate = directly given. Hegel: the immediate is the result of mediation.

In Hegel

Enz. §86 (note); throughout

Cross-references

Reflection · Reflexionsformen · Existence (Dasein) · Existence · Sublation

Entsprechung zu den reflexionsformen (kap. 5.5)

| Form of Reflection | Immediate/Mediated | What appears as | |---------------------|----------------------|-------------------| | Positing | Immediacy | The posited simply appears to be there | | External | Mediation | The presupposed comes from elsewhere | | Determining | Mediated immediacy | The immediate is itself mediated |

Die pointe

In determining reflection it is recognized: what appeared immediate (the posited) was always already mediated. What appeared mediated (the presupposed) is itself posited. This is "mediated immediacy" -- the truth of both one-sided moments.

Entwicklung durch die logik

- Logic of Being: the immediate appears as simply given (being) - Logic of Essence: the immediate is always already mediated -- it "shines" in its other - Logic of the Concept: mediation has itself become immediate -- the concept determines itself