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Air the crystal of the earth is passive to light is transparent must be free from earthy flaws free unrestricted otherwise it is simply opaque.

Then transparency belongs to colors on one hand and on the other hand, the relation between lightness and darkness, in short a spectrum.

How does sunlight relate to earth? The most important characteristic of sunlight is its gleam. If earth’s surface were smooth, earth would simply gleam or shining image of something other. Sunlight brightens up earth and makes it visible.

Because it’s surface is rough, smooth, and pointed and causes light and shade to arise earth is perpetually ignited and incited. The Sun and earth brings the difference of day and night; without earth's connection to the sun, earth would be a devoid of process. The sun mounting higher and higher is daytime and when it reaches its highest point sinks to its lowest is nighttime.

Another factor of earth and sunlight relationship is the atmosphere. Goethe’s discovery that the variations of the barometric level were simultaneous compared barometric reading from the same latitude on different meridians in Europe, America, and Asia. From these readings, he found that trade winds are constant east winds, in the tropics also winds from Europe blow from the northeast, the nearer one gets to the equator the more winds blow from the east. The more distance from the equator, the winds take on a southerly direction until they are southeast. In India, the barometer usually stands at the same level. Then this whole solar system exists together as the unbinding one. Before we can see darkness is required, otherwise there is only luminous light.

In the course of the experience sense-certainty perception, conception vanishes in the course of the experience attains through truth but seeing and hearing are inaccurate witnesses.

In the company of philosophy is knowledge, it gets rid of eyes and ears and feelings as far as can because the senses deter from knowledge. Sense-certainty perception, conception can be looked on, as the path of doubt but with skepticism comes earnest work and truth.

Doubt passes into conviction by means of knowledge, the instrument of enlightenment. For knowledge are not inconsistency, but science and a higher sense of self.

Socrates believed that until philosophers have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom in one and that those commoner natures are compelled to stand aside, cities would never have rest from their evils.

The true philosopher must from the earliest youth desire truth and knowledge. Another criterion must have magnificence of mind. In childhood the philosophy they learn, should be suited to their tender years: the chief and special care should range at will and engage in no serious labor, as we intend them to live happily here. If well educated, and grow into sensible person they will easily see their way through all the troubles life disperses out at them,

A fair society maintains itself by being thoughtful and preserves a spirit of the entire society, collectively as pure spirit outside individualism and family. This spirit rises out of heartlessness into a conscious one spirit for all, and this constitutes the element of divine and human law. Without opposition to one another, an absolute unbroken sense security and fulfillment known to every being.

A fair society you will find people who are duty-bound work in the best way. This is justice where the whole society grows up in a fine order, and receives happiness which nature assigns to them.

The artist becomes rich no longer does he or she takes the same time with their art. By being rich, they become more and more idle and careless? Whereas artist who has no money cannot provide the tools or instruments needed, their work deteriorates too.

Hegel believed what makes purpose complete is belief, because purpose itself cannot be felt is simply undifferentiated self-conscious ideal, which has no support, cannot stand alone, or conditioned because purpose is ideal.

Look at self within take heed no disorder may arise; Purpose will make a better person whether rich or poor. When the mind aspiring after true being none of worldly things can trouble it, neither sounds nor sights nor pain nor pleasure.


Purpose must not be taken as if it were mere idea or act of service. Nor should we think that it produces any kind of achievement, it is a spirit, an immediate truth, through purpose comes about feeling and devotion.

Lifted upwards Philosophy of Mind is a useful handy helper for greater clearness, and better understanding of the attitude of people towards it how it does not rest in the multiplicity of appearance. True knowledge is found on a keen edge not to be blunted nor forced to abate.

There is nothing more whole extending in every direction like unbounded space. It is not connected to any thing or condition, is truly mediationless indifference. Nothing affects it even though things exist in it. Things and space they do not interfere each other.

In magnetism, the difference is revealed in one body as only an abstract activity. In electricity, each difference belongs to a separate body; each is self-subsistent. Chemical process, is the self-realizing unrest, it is the totality of the life of the lifeless individuality. Bodies enter into a process as being odorous matter, tasting, and color matter. Magnetism is the inseparable unity, is one form makes its appearance in the inner process of earth, the meteorological sphere.
The unity of magnetism and electricity borne the chemical process, they are the abstract and formal sides of chemical process. Every chemical process contains magnetism and electricity principle.

The truth of particular bodies actuality is Chemical Process. The whole chemical process, the particular process is bound up with the general process of Earth.

water and alcohol mixed together completely permeates each other is a chemical process is. to enter into real process accordingly, bodies must be connected with a third substance distinct form as such - water and as the Element of differentiation and dissociation - air. Thus, neutrality and dissociation are different moments and acquire separate existence.

in the process come into contact with each other as totalities, they must meet in what is indifferent as in abstract physical Element. :Chemical process is a double activity of bodies which Water as the principle of affirmation and air as the principle of fore, of being-for-self, of negation. The extremes are combined to form a middle term, whereas in the formal chemical process only two terms are needed.

This is knowledge pure implicit truth yet not actual but abstract, space and time plays the role of inner principle in the case of simple certainty, pure knowing because pure knowing the ultimate absolute truth of consciousness means knowing without any specifications and filling; absolute not mediated by anything just like space; The shape of an immediate being opening and unfolding into the world is transformed into something, but it is just the starting point.


Whenever some actor performs as a person who possesses a higher reason, the universal author of all things beautiful and good, parent of light, and the light in this visible world and source of truth, is seen only with an effort.
Therefore, I press forward to the true form of existence, I lay aside what is foreign to me, with what is only for self; my consciousness becomes identified with this very stage proper of mind. When, finally I grasp the truth of knowledge. Skepticism brings about despair, thoughts, and opinions, and that follows straight away to criticism. Most people see knowledge as a test, a mere negative process but knowledge transcends what is limited, and transcends one’s own self-consciousness. Consciousness remains always in unthinking sluggishness, thought knowledge agitates our consciousness, disturbs its indolence is violated at the hands of reason.

The pathway to knowledge is the truth of consciousness. The truth which consciousness has concerning it can by its essential principle embrace nothing less than the entire system of consciousness.

Knowledge is not that kind of Idealism, which steps into the place of mere assurance, or mere self-certainty. Rather, knowledge is absorbed in that content and is at the same time returned into it, for this activity is pure self-identity in otherness.

In this way the knowing is an artful device which, looks on and watches how specific determinateness with its concrete life, believes it is working out its own self-certainty and interest, in point of fact, makes self the self-consciousness of substance; clearly being self-identical determinate thought

This, the very kernel of understanding always takes a survey of the whole, assumes a position steeping itself in its object, it forgets to take that general survey, which is merely a turning of knowledge away from the content back into itself. true knowledge returns back into itself, drops to the level of being one existing entity, and passes over into its higher truth. By this process, self emerges out of the wealth wherein its process of reflection seemed to be lost.

In ancient times, philosophy had significance in education. There was an eagerness to behold truth and to be nourished in the spirit of philosophy.

Almost no one who has read Hegel’s work can understand him. Only a few do, yet he is one of the greatest philosophers in time. Actually, Hegel himself believed only one person understood him and that was Hölderlin the poet his friend and roommate with Hölderlin and Schelling. Hegel even requested he be buried next to Hölderlin.

Around six hundred B.C, philosophy makes its first appearance when two philosophers, Thales and Pythagoras took the spirit of Greece out of apathy and insensitiveness. They were profound thinkers exalted in truth, knowledge, justice, courage, and temperance

According to the best calculation, Thales was born in the first year of the 35th Olympiad 640 B.C. The author of the Ionic sect, the founder of philosophy was a person of rare genius. In Greece at that time, the scholars had considered sciences, the sun, mountains, earth, sea, and rivers as independent powers and to be revered as gods.

All this is forgotten truth philosophers must rediscovery purely by the light of reason and visualize by intelligence, without any assistance of senses, and persevere until reason arrives at last the intellectual world. The art of reason is for the sake of knowledge. This purely speculative thinking has the power of elevating the mind into the highest principles of being. However, hypothetical ideality means self-contradiction and instead of going upwards to knowledge can descend into mere opinion.

Then Being is pure thought, can be looked at the way as same crystals of the earth as passive transparency free from earthy flaws free unrestricted otherwise it is simply opaque.

Being falls entirely within the logic of Kant as the precedent and authority. Kant’s critique was a first consideration of reason. In the Kantian sense logic goes beyond the usual content of so-called general reason into what Kant called transcendental logic a doctrine of categories, or reflective concepts, and reason: analytical and dialectical.

Kant’s transcendental idealism meaning the determinations of being was Hegel’s hope to achieve once again logic’s true worth, and not some lopsided version of it

Courage of mind is self-consciousness at home with self. Here then is positive objective being a self conscious of self-controlling what is essential and actual within self. all that is ultimate and essential appears as a part of being, acting, and striving, within the world.

Then courage is necessity because of the fearful and unknown darkness of fate. Here devoid of consciousness fate, which never comes to draw distinctions within self and never attains the clearness only shadows.

Courage is a kind indelibly fixed by nurture and training, not to be washed away by such potent lyes by sorrow, fear, and desire, pleasure they are all mighty solvents. A sort of universal saving power of true opinion in conformity with rules about real and false situations,

Self-consciousness is being reflective and objective works self out of indifference and callousness into a world-spirit, where wisdom, insight, and understanding make its appearance.

Courage is the saving grace of true opinion about real and falsehood. Courage is a mighty agent, under all circumstances preserves, and does not lose bravery; it is more than any soda or lye; or by grief, terror, and longing, the mightiest of all solvents in mind.

How astonishing how translucent sunspots orbits around the sun, disperse and another is formed. Their movement are whirl on the point of separating into a different direction to avoid, Moons seemingly are powerless masses and whose existence is conditional. Earth as the ground and basis of individuality is fertility, vitality. Water and earth invade air volatilize it into a atmospheric process, resolving water and earth into odors.

The cosmos sun, moon and planets is the relationship of one and other, universal cohesion perfect unity, a group of independent bodies nesting in an objective essential relationship to each other.
They , even though dwelling together in unity, turn and express independence such as moon motion is gravitational, partly conditioned, and partly free.

The cosmos is divided into three motions of the comets, moons, and planets. Motion of cometary is elliptic and uniform whereas moon motion is that pendulum motion that has its center not only in itself but also in other.

Laws of universal motion of the cosmos Thales thought the universe was all embracing whole developed microbe and that water was all-powerful being of life. Socrates believed that God is the only maker of real being, for no one else can be the maker. Not a particular maker but a real maker of real existence is God, the natural author. God likens that of mind which lifts the head into the outside world, and is carried round in the revolution, troubled indeed and with difficulty beholding true being; most of us rises and falls, and sees, and again fails to see the unruliness of the climb. This exceeding eagerness the mind to behold truth and where pasturage is found suited to the highest part of the mind; and on which mind soars is nourished with truth.

How astonishing how translucent sunspots orbits around the sun, disperse and another is formed. Their movement are whirl on the point of separating into a different direction to avoid, Moons seemingly are powerless masses and whose existence is conditional. Earth as the ground and basis of individuality is fertility, vitality. Water and earth invade air volatilize it into an atmospheric process, resolving water and earth into odors.

The true astronomer has the same feeling when he or she looks at the movements of the stars. Will not they think that God frames heaven and the things in it in the most perfect manner? But he will never imagine that the proportions of night and day, or of both to the month, or of the month to the year, or of the stars to these and to one another, and any other things that are material and visible can also be eternal and subject to no deviation that would be absurd and equally absurd to take so much pains in investigating their exact truth. At the same time, I must not lose sight of my own higher object.

In the cosmos is cometary uniform motion, particular motion which is gravitation and the unconditionally motion is the planetary motion. The law of motion concerns two things, the form of the path and velocity of motion. In the strictest sense the law of motion is divided into three parts, the cometary as the sun and the sunspots, the lunar motion and the planetary motion together demonstrate one movement by two determinations. What difference if whether the sun or the earth which moves is a matter of indifference if they were the only players but there are three motions; a uniformed motion that is expressed from outside, a conditional and the partly free motion.
There are two sorts of being, one seen, and the other unseen. The seen is the changing, and the unseen the unchanging. For example, is not one part of us body, and the rest of us mind. And to which class may I say is the body is more alike and akin? Is the soul seen or not seen? By seen and not seen I mean which is and which is not visible to the eye.

The mind is more like to the unseen, and the body to the seen. Then from the mind are derived knowledge that all sensible things aim at and the idea of equality. Then to see hear or perceive anything we must have knowledge derived from the senses.