This notion, which, being immediate, had also, for its consciousness, the shape of immediacy, has, in the second place, taken on the form of self-consciousness essentially and inherently, i.e. by just the same necessity of the notion by which being or immediacy, the abstract object of self-consciousness, renounces itself and becomes, for consciousness, Ego.
Adigai horrek, bitartegabeko adigai den aldetik bere kontzientziarentzat ere bitartega bekotasunaren tankera duenak, bere buruari bigarrenik berbaitango autokontzientziaren tankera eman dio, hau da, adigaiaren beharrezkotasunari jarraiki, izatea edo bitartegabekotasuna, sentipenezko kontzientziaren objektu edukigabekoa dena, bere baitatik kanporatzen den aldetik, eta kontzientziarentzat nia bihurtzen den aldetik.