On the Concept

Substance itself is initially under the form of the one moment of its concept, Being-in-itself original: An sich seyns. This refers to the potential or internal nature of a thing before it interacts with anything else., such that the determinacy A "determinacy" is a specific characteristic or quality that defines what something is. of one of the substances standing in relationship is also the determinacy of this relationship itself.

2.) The other moment is Being-for-itself original: Fürsichseyn. This describes a state where a thing is no longer just a potential but is self-aware or active in relation to itself., or that Power posits itself as self-relating negativity, through which it sublates Term: Sublate (German: aufheben). A core Hegelian concept meaning to both cancel out and preserve at a higher level. that which was presupposed. — The active substance is the cause; it acts; that means it is now the positing, just as it was previously the presupposing, so that a) to Power is also given the appearance of power, and to posited-being is given the appearance of posited-being. That which was original in the presupposition becomes, through the relation to another in Causality, what it is in-itself; the cause produces an effect, and specifically upon another substance; it is now power in relation to an other; it appears to that extent as a cause, but it only truly becomes such through this appearing. — The effect meets the passive substance, through which it also now appears as posited-being, but only therein is it a passive substance.

3.) But there is even more present here than just this appearance; namely a.) The cause acts upon the passive substance, changing its determination; but this determination is the posited-being, otherwise there would be nothing to change in it; however, the other determination it receives is causality; the passive substance thus becomes a cause, power, and activity. b) The effect is posited in it by the cause; but that which is posited by the cause is the cause itself, identical with itself in its acting; it is the cause which puts itself in the place of the passive substance. — Just