the government, the individual citizens
and the needs or external life of the individuals, are three terms, each
of which is the middle of the other two. The government is the
absolute centre in which the extreme of the individuals is united with
their external existence; similarly, the individuals are the middle term
that activate that universal individual into external concrete existence
and translate their moral essence into the extreme of actuality. The
third syllogism is the formal syllogism, that of an illusory show, in
which the individuals purport to be linked to this universal absolute
individuality by their needs and external existence; a syllogism which,
as merely subjective, passes over into the others and in them has its
truth.
