It learns, therefore, through its own act at once the contradictory nature of those powers into which the inner substance divided itself, and their mutual overthrow, as well as the contradiction between its knowledge of the ethical character of its act and what is truly and essentially ethical, and so finds its own destruction.
Bere egintzan, beraz, bai botere haien kontraesana (substantzia horietan bikoiztu zen) eta haien elkarrekiko suntsiketa esperientziatzen du, bai bere ekitearen etikotasunari buruz duen jakitearen eta berbaitan eta berbaitarako etiko den horren arteko kontraesana, eta horrela autokontzientzia horrek bere hondamendi propioa aurkitzen du.