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#1 Yuk Hui fan and so-called Technical Ecologist. Go team @stratpolitics.org "the spirit does not use bridges; it prefers gaps so that it can leap."
#1 Yuk Hui fan and so-called Technical Ecologist. Go team @stratpolitics.org "the spirit does not use bridges; it prefers gaps so that it can leap."
![§9. Spirit and the Organic Becoming of the Externalized
In the introduction to his Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Hegel states, "The state is the Idea of Spirit in the externalized form of human will and its freedom."® The Idea is distinguished from the Concept, for the former is the life of the latter. A living (lebendig) concept is one that is able to reflect into itself, to be conscious of itself. How can the Concept of State be conscious of itself? Or, in general, what does it mean when a concept is conscious of itself? We might say that the concept, when reflecting on itself, complexifies and concretizes itself while at the same time eliminates what is merely contingent. However, not all concepts concretize in time; it is only possible when the concept is dialectical in nature. The state as an idea of the spirit is modeled on an organicity or an organismic logic. There are two key terms here that we need to explore in order to shed light on the notion of planetary freedom: externalization and organicity. As Hegel writes in Philosophy of Mind: "In the philosophical vision of spirit as such, spirit is studied as self-instruction and self-cultivation in its very es-sence, and its exteriorizations [seine Äußerungen] are stages in the process which brings it forward to itself [seines Sich-zu-sich-selbst-Hervorbringens],](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4sdtgrtcqzpjk24oglbhqwrd/bafkreicdbebovfbl4sfrmzi5lu6qjomfhmniazikpbrbkqd5ezpxrvj3xe)
