[343] I presume what Hegel means is as individual gods.
[344] Er nicht mit seinem eigenen Selbst dabei ist. He fails to obtain the determinate freedom of the self-excluding subject.
[345] I.e., between gods and men.
[346] Ganz prosaisch. Viewed practically, that is to say, rather than metaphysically. The examples explain the meaning.
[347] Das Thun geht stets herüber und hinüber. Is a skein in which the threads run over and under one another.
[348] "Iliad," I, v, 190.
[349] This view may be well contrasted with the less vital criticism of Schiller on this subject, which induced him actually to exclude the feature from his amended edition of the play. In fact Hegel shows more insight here than Coleridge.
[350] Nicht über Hamlet haltlos verfügt. It is also obvious, I think, that such a passage need not necessarily be opposed to Goethe's main conception. Such ideas may readily be explained as the excuses of a man who inherently shrinks from forming a grave resolve of vigorous action. No doubts are suggested when Hamlet sees the ghost.
[351] Den eigentlichen Mittelpunkt. Between what? I think the examples show that it is both between a work of human art and Nature and between the work of art itself and those to whom it is addressed.
[352] Lit., Screws itself like a corkscrew into.