“Who Thinks Abstractly?” In the nineteenthcentury edition of Hegel's Werke, this article (Wer denkt absiraki?) appears in vohume XVI, 400-5, Rosca, ‘ranz cscusses it broly (3551) and says that it shows “how much Hlpel...eatred into the Bern manne.” Giockner reprints it in his edon of the Werke in vol. XX (2920), which is entided: Vermische Schritien us der Berliner Zt He includes it among “four jeulletons that Hegel wrote for Toca papers during the later years of hi Bertin period." But Glocke fer admis: “The exact place of publiation i unfortunately une known to me” (xx), Hotimeister, whose encal edition of Hegel's Berliner Sehriten: 1818-1831 (1956) is much more comprehensive than Glockne:s (800 pages versus $50), doesnot include thie artic, In a footnote he sys that it belongs to Hepes “Jena period (1807/08)" (i), ‘Tis isan uncharacteristic sip: at ho beginning of 1807 Hegel went ‘o Bamberg, in 1808 to Nurnberg; and in the fist wesks of 1807, before he let Jena, he certainly lacked the time and peace of mid to write thi ait OF Glockner’s “four feuiletone" Hofmeister resins only one, and ‘hat is really a Keer to.a newspsper, protesting teir review of a new play. Hofmeister gives no reasons for dating this ale so ‘uch eaiier than Rosenkranz and Glockner did. Posibly, the di Paraging remark about Kotsbue (a Geman playwright, 1761— 1819) suggests a date before Kotzsbue was stibbed to death by a Gorman theology student. That the piece was Written in Jena sees Diver Wiis ofthe eta Psod™ Translation 461 fon ney: se te tom the ae—and he at nga we dag he ars ond aa es Bt Hotter co teh tt ws vc in 1907 oF 108 WHO THINKS ABSTRACTLY? “Think? Aractyt—Sauve qu pet! Let those who can sive hemelva! Even now Lean bea ¢ tai, Bout Dy te en, fic tise nor une ey eee Ht wil ih 2 word, less than GET wit memphycs, For morphs fs. word, ‘rar nd ast tng fe wel, rom which everyboly ore oe ‘Paton aay wom a mat who Bosca the pa ur he inenion hte rely Oot so wcked, api the mening ft oking and ot ssae wee fe explained bee, There Stee te belt world nse ile as explanation. 1 Moo find ere when somebody bei fo explo, for when wort Comes two I enetanteveting my Here te men Sm tihng and abst woud in any ease be exis pet fous, for It nly beau the Deauifl world Knows what it Mons oe aburct da anes Jst as one doesnot desire hv on dct at ao one vo emt hat Nor my et way cay 0 recon the Ref wort th thinking oi serie Scare snbhacs onal ta in 4 the abstract were to be put over till in the end they had found theit wy Ta sty incognito avg ous ny ps even Wit ey were to be adopted imperceply by sist, of 38 the Salas sy eens, two te aor of fs come Picton suey exposed insane ges mel he ast thom the whole party had log Weted and recognied om Silene ew fhe wee «good od equates, Soc sens sreSopdon which are meant fo ns the word agsiast is wil five Oe mvt ht they sleet Roms and the wheeler cy wih his ariiee o gio ie fame; ot his nian and tis vnity destroy te ect, forty push aay insect ned ich a pre again402 “wo Tunas anstasctiye 1a ay cas, sch plan would be ruined fom thea fog woud eg tnt te Ell word ted nt ape & the cue Bu ths bas sendy happened a io eI ta east toyed wih sch erates tee wot cbul oot hv bez sseey to ener ih ia the begining but eth cabict ener as ‘ome, ty sold have bon reed oak un Goa ke fours pny in el vest, talon aly te et ho Scag he Sig sn of won. The wnbutoig he te Bisa overcrt wold be Ins elie wo be sre has oe Eaton ofthe misters: woul ng to M50 mae thats couse af words, and he bs pat of ets onght be ah Shown that soy has long ben in poses othe mater fuse ‘owt thy woul in nh td would be te mee name, We Shomer assis someting ala bag money pt everybody present tould taow wha hang and wht is tbat iW prteppore in good soy, and we cect foot sock. Tie union ely wo Bins abr. Tie tte os aedy meniond, eno 1 fol oly mil se lags, fo expect to del with sonst bea to spa (0s concince ot tv to meget such mater ta Soh tank and sos of big ied with so. 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Good sore dos not hissy temas to ey eras {tp fowty (ot fering efter states) oot fom an my ‘Meco of abt tht weld place oa shove tat of wach fot capa, but on azn of he award front he ate “he pede aod resp for abt ning we So wet tat seave evs wl gino el somes or ony ats polos ll ‘ransaion ae but sine they red the morning pape they Know that see priae Te hd forse tat sod here fone en Ky Sompeting for ttn ge op ee wiht arr ado. hove ony ty edie examples for my prooston: erenbody cat pum that ey confi I Adee Ted tothe place of ‘Retin Fare conmon pops hig bt 8 ree {ici pepe remit bes song, hanson, intreing toe rhe populace fds this remark terbie: What? A murderer Findome?"How can one tia so wickedly and call 8 murderer Teiiome; ao doubt you youre ae omething not ech Ba {Stans he corapton of mor ht prevaeat Inte wer ‘Slane pt muy a, kovwng th btm figs and bush ne who knows men traces the development of the criminal’s: avn be gst. in Hs evento, a fol tn {hip betwee his aber and ter, some wemendovs hahaa after BP famon brag ed done some minor ong, she became eo ‘ered aun te sol order it resent hs tin fet ‘Npctoa rao henetorth id ot rake f possible for him 10 sere himat excep ough some —Thore may te people who irs when they bear suc things Be want to excuse Oe mie Srea’Afer al ronember tow in my youth head a mayor item tt wes af boks were ging 00 far and sought o ext fate Chrstnty and seuss aogier somebody had weit Tena dtear of sie ele, relly foo tenbe—Furher gues fons revs that The Sues of Werder (by Goethe, 1774) “Thu ubaract hiking: t se ting in he murder exept she sour ct at e murderer sod anu al oer ban {Soon tm with hs sine gully. Tr quie diferent in reine, seaimental cres—in ‘Tce dey seewed and bound flowers om th wheel and on the ‘inal ewes te to ie But hs again the oppose bse fon The Chines may indeed til with Rosroansm, of rater Cro, an treat rors ee the con, The ros te Tos and wheel nt hae Ten een alowed Tas fost 5 Seeded zinc of ting fhe istrment of dishonorable pur Sen ron he coma spss enti fhe Mes in nd the erp rocton roger wh the mes oyu rape 38 ‘vow honor The wheel la Lapa, on the ober hand, wreathed‘se “wo Tuners anstRAcTLy?® with violets and poppies, isa reconclaton & Ia Koterboe, a kind of slovenly sociability been eantinentaliy and badness In quite a diferent manner T once beatd a commen old woman who worked in a hospital Kil the abstraction of the murderer nea ‘ring him to lie for honor. The severed head had been placed oo the setfold, and the sun was shining. How beauty se std, the fn of Goats grace shines on Binders headl—You ae not worthy ‘ot ving the sun shine on you, on say t0 a rascal with hom one, 4s auery, This woman saw thatthe murderers head was suck by te sunshine and thus was sil worthy of it She raised ft from the Punishment ofthe scaffold into the euany grace of God, and intend of accomplishing the reconlation with volts and setimeatal ers ity, saw him acepted in grace inthe higher san, Old women, jour eggs are rotten! the maid says to the market women. What? she replies, my eg rotten? You may be roteal You say that about my eggs? You? Did not ice eat you father 00 the ighways? Did’ your mother run sway withthe French, and diet yout grandmother aie ina public hospital? Let er get a whole shirt instead of thet fimsy seart; we know well where she got that scart, and her hats: if it were not for thote officers, many’ wouldit be decked out lke that these days, snd if ther ladyahips paid move attetion to thei households, maay would be in jail right sow, Let ‘her mend the holes in her stockngs!—Ia bie, she does not leave jo whole thread on her. She thinks abstract and subsumes the ‘ther woman—seart, ha, shirt, et, aswell as her fages and other rts of hes, and her father and whole Tamily, wo scaly une {e crime tht sbe is found the eggs rotten, Everything about ber 4s colored through and through by these rotten clas, while those collet of which the market woman spoke—i, as cae may seriously dutt,there is anything to that—may have got to see very diferae ings ‘To move from the maid toa servant, no servant is wore off than ‘ove who works for a man of low elas and low income aad he i beter off the nobler his master i. The common man apain thinks ‘more abstracdy, be gives himself noble aire vie tvs the servant and sts himself to the other man merely as to eervant; he clings to this one predicate. The servant it best of among the Freach, The ‘obleman is familar with his servant, the Frenchman is his fiend, When they are alone, the servant does the tlking” sez Diderot’ Jacques et son metre; the master does nothing but take sou 2nd | ia . as Transaon shat nits nd i sak ae feet cnt knows atthe servant aot merely m ser bt ako bnowr te lacs iy ve, be iy snd hbo pod sup fst he is im bute ay nd oa aya Stat he tnows abot exe gurstons, With French maser, {eran mayo nl 2 i; be may aso Broach a mbt, hve it ‘en opinions snd insist on them ad whee the mater wens sme hing, oot doe mith an oder bat be has fo age ad eovice {hese opnon mal ada good hod to make or hat non in he oper hae sete the aay we encounter the sme ress. Among the Abi an ole ay be Den ale for wht Bs th save aah w be besten anil Thos the common slr is fate fice is aaron fa tele wi whom & usa ho hs.a uniform and port epee most tole {Steam at could ive one wo makes pot withthe ded.