Hegel uses it. Accordingly I have translated Wirklichkeit by reality and Realität by reality. It should be noted that the terms are not used indiscriminately. Bestimmung I have allowed myself to render by determination, category, characteristic, nature, or even principle as the context suggests. There is no fixed equivalent in English, but the significance can generally be given fairly accurately. Begriff and Idee are rendered respectively by notion and ‘idea’—the quotation marks indicating that ‘idea’ is not to be understood in anything but Hegel’s technical sense. Other words present less difficulty.
I have usually taken advantage of Wallace’s translations from the Encyclopaedia and Professor Baillie’s translation of the Phenomenology. I have consulted versions of other parts of Hegel whenever they were available, particularly that of the Philosophy of Right by Dr. Dyde, but I have preferred to make my own translation. Unless otherwise stated, the references to Hegel’s Werke are to the edition of 1832-40; the exceptions being the early treatise of 1802 Concerning the Scientific Modes of Treating Natural Right, for which references are given to the edition in 1913 of Hegel’s Schriften zur Politik und Rechtsphilosophie by Georg Lasson as well as to volume I of the Werke, and the Philosophy of History which is quoted from the third edition of the Werke, dated 1848.
