Commentary and explanation of par 483 in the Encyclopedia.
"The objective Mind is the absolute Idea, but only existing in itself: and as it is thus on the basis of finitude, its actual rationality retains the aspect of external apparency.
The free will finds itself immediately confronted by differences which arise from the circumstance that freedom is its inward function and aim, and is in relation to an external and already subsisting objectivity, which splits up into different heads: viz. anthropological data (i.e. private and personal needs), external things of nature which exist for consciousness, and the ties of relation between individual wills which are conscious of their own diversity and particularity. These aspects constitute the external material for the embodiment of the will."
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