handout - the UC Davis Philosophy Department

• Once the principle reaches the level of “universality,” which is the level of spirititself, it is able to transform itself and provide a new aim.• Each phase in the increasing self-consciousness of spirit brings it closer to itsself-realization.• Nothing in the past is lost in this development, as spirit is an essential present.• All earlier steps in history are absorbed into “a circle of progressive embodiments,”which are never left behind.24