it can attain to its true, universal, and free essence. Legality and morality (which Kant had taken to be opposites) now become a preliminary stage toward ethical behavior, which is “the perfection of objective spirit” insofar as it has become the unity and “truth of subjective and objective spirit itself” (Enzyklopädie, section 513). It is all the easier to transpose Hegelian philosophy into a trinitarian theology since the former clearly has its origin in the latter. For the young Hegel, for instance,