The person who wants a triangle of which two angles and the sum of the sides are given, grasps in his mind the determinateness of the form of this triangle and restricts his search for it to a certain group of triangles of the same form.
But therefore a philosophy that repudiatesdeterminateness in the nature of reality is ineffable because it is objectless.
The dread of determinatenessis the dread of reason, of explanation, of interpretation--in a word, of philosophy.
We have called consciousness the formal aspect of activity, and we mean by “form” applied to activity what we mean elsewhere, determinateness or definableness.
But at the same time, this its determinatenessrests in the fact that it is only universal; hence such a principle is always conditioned, and consequently contains within it a destructive dialectic.
The earlier efforts of thought towards objectivity constitute a passing intodeterminateness and finitude merely, and not into an objective world adequate to absolute existence.
But this eternal is also in the determinateness of the other reality, in the Idea of the self-changing and variable principle whose universal is matter.
But there always remains a compulsion to represent mythology in the determinateness of the Notion.
The place where this point of view took its origin happens to be the country where East and West have met in conflict; for the free universality of the East and the determinateness of Europe, when intermingled, constitute Thought.
This is quite the correct standpoint for consciousness, and it is in itself comprehensible, but it is only for the phenomenal mind that the other in the determinateness of consciousness is present.
His defect, however, is that thisdeterminateness and that universality are still outside one another.
As the union of the preceding principles, Plato further led this Being into determinateness and into difference, as the latter is contained in the triad of Pythagorean number-determinations, and expressed the same in thought.
Multiplicity as Notion, not as the many, is itself unity; it is duality, or the determinateness which stands over against indeterminateness.
Now this determinateness consists in the one being identical with itself in the other, in the many, in what is distinguished.
But this result as merely negative is itself again a one-sided determinateness opposed to the positive; i.
Aristotle’s conception of nature is, however, nobler than that of to-day, for with him the principal point is the determination of end as the inward determinateness of natural things.
He perfected, dialectically, the doctrine of his master, and carried out to the completest extent the abstraction of the Eleatic One, in opposition to the manifoldness and determinateness of the finite.
By this dialectic of attraction and repulsion, quality passes over into quantity: for indifference in respect of distinction or qualitative determinateness is quantity.
It is this abstraction carried to a higher step, when we look away from the sensible concretions of matter, and no more regard its qualitative determinateness as water, air, &c.
But the determinateness of quantity is number, and this is the principle and standpoint of Pythagoreanism.
Artistic contemplation accepts the work of art just as it displays itself qua external object, in immediate determinatenessand sensuous individuality clothed in colour, figure, and sound, or as a single isolated perception, etc.
Determinateness is, as it were, the bridge to phenomenal existence.
But if rules are meant to be adequate on this subject, their precepts ought to have been drawn up with such determinateness that they could be carried out just as they are expressed, without further and original activity of mind.
We have seen how the work of Art, springing up out of the depths of Nature, begins with determinatenessand limitation, unfolds its inward plenitude and infinity, is finally transfigured in Grace, and at last attains to Soul.
Determinateness of form is in Nature never a negation, but ever an affirmation.
It gives to the substance that ultimate determinateness which an accidental mode such as a definite shape or location gives to the accident of quantity.
We shall take Leucippus and Democritus with Empedocles; in them there is manifested the ideality of the sensuous and also universal determinateness or a transition to the universal.
To the Notion too, because to it the determinateness of laws in the form in which they have value to unperceiving consciousness has dissolved, only the purely implicit universal Good is the true.
The first extends from Thales to Anaxagoras, from abstract thought which is in immediate determinateness to the thought of the self-determining Thought.
It is only such an ideal world, that is, a world arbitrarily removed from its actual complexity, that has the quality of absolute determinateness which we are wont to ascribe to the real world.
First of all, the subject which is to be learned has a specific determinateness which demands in its representation a certain fixed order.
The man may become indifferent about the ethical determinateness of his deeds.
The result of the practice in virtue, or, as it is commonly expressed, of the individual actualization of freedom, is the methodical determinateness of the individual will as Character.
The unity of the abstractly natural and abstractly spiritual determinateness is the concrete unity of the spirit with nature, in which it recognizes nature as its necessary organ, and itself as in its nature divine.
Natural individuality appearing as national determinateness was still acknowledged, but was deprived of its abstract isolation.
It is just as specific in its determinations as the historical religion, but its determinateness is at the same time universal, since it is worked out by the thinking reason.
