The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 2 (of 4): Hegel's Aesthetik
Georg Hegel · en
[Footnote 47: This I think is the sense, though Hegel expresses it by
using words such as _das Personificieren und Vermenschlichen_, and
lower down _das Subjektiviren._ But previously he has rather contrasted
that false kind of personification which seeks for the significant
in the expression of the subject, his deeds and acts, rather than in
grasping the motive centre of personality, the subjective principle
itself, and it appears more intelligible in a passage, which is
sufficiently hard to follow in any ease, to preserve that contrast.]
[Footnote 48: There is apparently only one ring and sceptre, but the
words used are capable of the interpretation that would attach one for
each of the hands.]
[Footnote 49: Hegel cites Wilson's Lexicon, _s.v._ 2.]
[Footnote 50: _Dem Rhythmus nach_, that is, the Hindoo conception
is entirely superficial, and expresses rather a rhythmic order than
a profound spiritual truth which this number expresses, a truth
which as Hegel has previously observed may be expressed under other
determinations than the numerical.]
[Footnote 51: _Unstätigkeit_, instability, flightiness, detachment from
a fundamental principle.]
[Footnote 52: That is Brahmâ apparently.]
[Footnote 53: The order of the words would strictly mean that the sons
were in the pitchers and it is quite possible that this is the meaning.]
[Footnote 54: That is, in Greek cosmogony.]
[Footnote 55: What: _Centimanen_ refers to I do not know, possibly a
name for Arges, Ceropes, and Brontes.]
[Footnote 56: The sense is "which is not merely (to take the obvious
case of opposition which is, however, _not_ the one here described)
totally outside the Absolute and incidental to," etc. Hegel's words
would admit of the interpretation that this was part of the conception
he is describing. But this is obviously not so, for, in that case, the
negative would be ascribed to both the Absolute and the "other God."]
[Footnote 57: _Ist Unterscheiden_, is that which involves
differentiation. To posit a quality is to distinguish from other
qualities. A fundamental, aspect of Hegelian logic.]
[Footnote 58: _Glied_, part of one organic totality.]
[Footnote 59: Hegel uses an expression somewhat similar to Milton's
"Among the faithless faithful only he." _Den Bisherigen_ refers
primarily, of course, to the Persian and Hindoo peoples.]
[Footnote 60: _Wie des Innern überhaupt_, _i.e._, the Inward with its
significance as the Absolute.]
[Footnote 61: _In seiner Abgeschiedenheit vom Leben_. In other words
the corpse was preserved as still the only appropriate external form of
Life. Though Hegel separates the two aspects of Egyptian belief they
were necessary concomitants of each other.]
[Footnote 62: I have translated _Innerem_ here by "soul," but it
expresses of course too much if taken strictly in its most personal
sense.]
[Footnote 63: _Aberglaube_, not "superstition" so much as belief that
is intuitive, not rationally deduced. The emphasis is on _ahnt._]