Immediate / Mediated
Hegel (throughout)
Not meant temporally (first immediate, then mediated), but logically. The immediate is the apparently simple, presuppositionless. The mediated is that which is determined through an other. But: the truly immediate is mediated (through the sublation of mediation). Truth is *mediated immediacy*.
Origin
Traditionally: immediate = directly given. Hegel: the immediate is the result of mediation.
In Hegel
Enz. §86 (Remark); throughout
Cross-references
Reflection · Reflexionsformen · Existence (Dasein) · Existence · Sublation
Entsprechung zu den reflexionsformen (kap. 5.5)
| Form of reflection | Immediate/Mediated | What appears as | |----------------|------------------------|-------------------| | Positing | Immediacy | The posited is simply there | | External | Mediation | The presupposed comes from elsewhere | | Determining | Mediated immediacy | The immediate is itself mediated |
Die pointe
In determining reflection it is recognized: what appeared immediate (the posited) was always already mediated. What appeared mediated (the presupposed) is itself posited. This is "mediated immediacy" -- the truth of both one-sided moments.
Entwicklung durch die logik
- Logic of being: the immediate appears as simply given (being) - Logic of essence: the immediate is always already mediated -- it "shines" in its other - Logic of the concept: mediation has itself become immediate -- the concept determines itself