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1807.
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sense of beauty without power hates intelligence because it demands what it cannot do, but it is the life of spirit that endures death and sustains itself in death, not the life that avoids death and keeps itself pure from desolation. The life of spirit is not the life that avoids death and keeps itself clean from desolation.
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The spirit acquires truth precisely because it places itself in the absolute division.
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The spirit does not demonstrate knowledge by turning away from the negative and becoming a mass of affirmations.
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It is precisely by Facing the Negative and staying with it that the spirit is powerful.
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While remaining there, the magic power to turn negativity into existence is born.
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The so-called “Hegel’s dialectic” idea.
- The word dialectics itself is not used by Hegel.
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By facing and staying with the negative rather than ignoring it, a reversal to existence occurs.
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[Dialectics - Wikipedia https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BC%81%E8%A8%BC%E6%B3%95#%E3%83%98%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%81%AE%E5%BC%81%E8% A8%BC%E6%B3%95]
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