The lord of the world: the absolute person

B. Spirit in self-estrangement: the discipline of culture and civilization

I. The world of spirit in self-estrangement

a. Culture and its realm of actual reality

1. Culture as the estrangement of natural existence

(a) Goodness and badness: state-power and wealth

(b) The cleavage of self-consciousness: nobility and baseness

(c) Service and advice

2. Language as the actuality of culture

(a) Flattery

(b) The language of distraction

(c) The vanity of culture

b. Belief and pure insight

1. The idea of belief

2. The object of belief

3. The rationality of pure insight

II. Enlightenment

a. The struggle of enlightenment with superstition

1. The negative attitude of insight towards belief

2. The doctrine of enlightenment

3. The rights of enlightenment

b. The truth of enlightenment

1. Pure thought and pure matter

2. The sphere of utility

3. Self-certainty

III. Absolute freedom and terror

[The awakening of free subjectivity]

C. Spirit certain of itself: Morality

a. The moral view of the world

1. The postulated harmony of duty and reality

2. The divine lawgiver and the imperfect moral consciousness

3. The moral world as a figurative idea

b. Dissemblance

1. The contradictions in the moral view of the world

2. The resolution of morality into its opposite

3. The truth of moral self-consciousness

c. Conscience: the "beautiful soul": Evil and the forgiveness of it

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