The way of the world (essential relativity) and virtue as put forth brilliantly by Hegel. Or (later in time) Heideggers two modes of being The consciousness which sets up the law of its heart therefore meets with resistance from others, because it contradicts the equally individual laws of their hearts...the universal that we have here is, then, only a universal resistance and struggle of all against one another, in which each claims validity for his own individuality, but at the same time does not succeed in his efforts, because each meets with the same resistance from the others, and is nullified by their reciprocal resistance. What seems to be public order, then, is this universal state of war, in which each wrests what he can for himself, executes justice on the individuality of others and establishes his own, which is equally nullified through the action of the others. It is the way of the world. The other side [of the universal ordinance] is the universal form of a tranquil essence...this shape of consciousness which, in the law, is aware of itself, which knows itself in what is intrinsically true and good, not as an individuality but only as it becomes an essential being; and which knows individuality to be perverted and the source of perversion, and therefore knows it must sacrifice the individuality of consciousness---this shape of consciousness is Virtue---Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit
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