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You're listening to the Partly Examine Life, episode episode 386 part three. We are finishing up,

well, hopefully finishing up, the sections assigned to us for this first Hegel phenomenology

of spirit reading on spirit, right? We assigned ourselves 438 to 463 and we've gotten up to, what did I say, 451, we were just finishing.

We had introduced the idea of the divine law, this sort of unconscious underbelly that is what is

necessary to give rise to explicit custom and explicit laws by legislators that this really

has more to do. It's not obviously, you know, the husband and wife's love for each other or

something. It has to do with the duties of the family toward the dead, primarily, which was very

strange. Yeah. So at the end of it, we get this weird statement that because it is only a citizen that he is actual and substantial,

the individual so far as he is not a citizen but belongs to the family, is only an unreal impotent shadow.

So on the one hand, the divine law of the family has something to do with burial and tending to the one who has died.

But on the other hand, there is a sense in which he's already dead if he is not yet a citizen.

So there's this association between death and family that is twofold. and I guess I'm not completely sure how they're related, but...

Well, he's not part of the spirit anymore, right? So someone before they are of age, when they're only children and merely a part of the family, it's like they don't exist from the point of view of the spirit.

When they die, as we were saying last time,

well, actually it's all their legacy,

their accomplishments,

the way that they contributed to the social mores,

that has sort of been reabsorbed.

But qua individual,

of course,

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