as a self-existing conscious individual, one with ultimate Reality. Since in this action purposiveness and end are distinguished, and pure insight likewise takes up a negative attitude towards this action, and denies itself just as it did in the other moments, it must as regards purposiveness present the appearance of being stupid and unintelligent, since insight united with intention, accordance of end with means, appears to it as an other, as really the opposite of what insight is. As regards the end, however, it has to make badness, enjoyment, and possession, its purpose, and prove itself in consequence to be the impurest kind of intention, since pure intention, qua external, an other, is similarly impure intention.
-Egitean xedetasuna eta xedea ezberdintzen diren heinean, eta ulermen hutsak, era berean, egite horri dagokionez negatiboki jokatzen duen heinean, eta, beste uneetan bezala, bere burua ukatzen duen heinean, orduan berak xedetasunari dagokionez bere burua adimen-eza bezala aurkeztu behar du, horri ulermena asmoarekin lotuta, hau da, xedearen eta bitartekoaren adostasuna, beste gauzatzat, aurkakotzat ere agertzen zaion heinean; xedeari dagokionez, aldiz, berak gaitz-dena, gozamena eta jabegoa, xede bihurtzen ditu, eta horrela asmo lizunen gisa agertzen da, asmo hutsa, era berean, beste gauza bezala, asmo lizuna delako.