[422] The meaning appears to me that apart from conscious life which can contrast the fleeting moments of Time with its permanent self-identity the process is without meaning—there is no process, it is a παντά ρεῖ with no differentiation.
[423] It cancels itself in so far as it makes itself an object. The dialectical movement of self-consciousness is here viewed in the bare form of its original abstraction.
[424] Das Ich als solches.
[425] Abgeschmackte. Not so much bad taste here as false judgment.
[426] Auffasst. Hegel would appear to mean the intelligent hearer rather than the composer, though the word would refer to either. Even then it is not clear why music should not be said to exist by its mere performance. But, of course, such presupposes the human executant, and this is possibly what Hegel intends to imply.
[427] Nüancirt. Made subject to the nuances or modifications introduced into such relations.
[428] Verstand as contrasted with Vernunft. The analytical faculty of science.
[429] That is, the quantitative basis.
[430] Die haltungslose Dauer. That is, a duration that is unbroken by arresting points in its progress.
[431] That is, self-conscious, synthetic unity holding the temporal process in relation to itself. It thus becomes not merely a werden but a für sich seyn. In contrast to the purely abstract process the self is das Bei sich selbstseyende i.e., that which persists along with itself. This totality or aggregate of particulars Hegel calls Sammlung. The analysis is really an analysis of the form of conscious experience.