[333] There is obviously a symbolic meaning in this poem of Hartmann which Hegel appears to have overlooked, the sacrifice which the monks prescribed not necessarily involving a physical sacrifice, but merely the gift of a love which would be equal to such a sacrifice.
[334] This passage is not easy to follow. I think der innre Begriff must mean the entire notion of the personality evolved in the action as distinct from all particular aspects which are negative and evil. The main difficulty of the passage consists in the abstract conception of evil or the negative upon which Hegel centres the attention.
[335] Halt, i.e., stable self-consistency.
[336] Die innre haltlose Zerrissenkeit.
[337] Abgeschlossenheit, i.e., self-exclusive individuality.
[338] Zur subjektiven Innerlichkeit. That is to say, the entire self-concentration on the spiritual centre of conscious life.
[339] Lit., Their individuality remains rather external form, in such a way that it fails to penetrate through to absolutely inward subjectivity.
[340] Noth, the constraint of necessary conditions.
[341] Mit der Bestimmten, i.e., with the definite subject-matter of temporal life.
[342] In the conception, that is to say, which is at the root of the Greek idea of Divinity.