Sound
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Hegel in German [1]
Der Klang ist der Wechsel des spezifischen Außereinanderseins der materiellen Teile und des Negiertseins desselben; – nur abstrakte oder sozusagen nur ideelle Idealität dieses Spezifischen. Aber dieser Wechsel ist hiermit selbst unmittelbar die Negation des materiellen spezifischen Bestehens; diese ist damit reale Idealität der spezifischen Schwere und Kohäsion, – Wärme.
Die Erhitzung der klingenden Körper wie der geschlagenen, auch der aneinandergeriebenen, ist die Erscheinung von der dem Begriffe nach mit dem Klange entstehenden Wärme.
Popper Translation [2]
“Sound is the change in the specific condition of segregation of the material parts, and in the negation of this condition; merely an abstract or an ideal ideality, as it were, of that specification. But this change, accordingly, is itself immediately the negation of the material specific subsistence; which is, therefore, real ideality of specific gravity and cohesion, i.e.–heat.
The heating up of the sounding bodies, just as of beaten and or rubbed ones, is the appearance of heat, originating conceptually together with sound.”
Miller Translation [3]
“Sound is the alternation of the specific asunderness of the material parts and of their mutual negatedness; its is only the abstract, or so to say, only ideal ideality of this specific asunderness. But this alternation is thus itself directly the negation of the material, specific subsistence. This negation, therefore, is the real ideality of specific gravity and cohesion – heat.
The generation of heat in sonorous bodies and in those which are struck or rubbed together, is the manifestation of heat originating with sound in conformity with its Notion.”
Google Translation [4]
“The sound is the alternation of the specific separation of the material parts and the negation of them; - only abstract or, so to speak, only ideal ideality of this specific. But this change itself is hereby directly the negation of material specific existence; this is thus real ideality of specific gravity and cohesion - warmth.
The heating up of the sounding bodies, as well as those that have been struck, and those that have been rubbed against one another, is the appearance of the heat which, according to the concept, arises with the sound.”
References
[1] Hegel. Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Part II, Science of Nature (Naturphilosophie), 1797. Zeno.org/Hegel/Naturphilosophie
[2] Popper. The Open Society and its Enemies, 1945
[3] Miller. Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, 1970
[4] Accessed on Jan, 2021