Dialectic Cognition is Idea's judgment of itself. It is Idea, but not yet Absolute Idea. Subjectivity has become Universal and objective. But the Universal has particularized itself. Notion now is split between subjective and objective Notion. It is part Idea and part not Idea.² It is subjective to the extent that its predicate is a dead thing diverse from Life. Death and self-consciousness are thus connected.³ If I am to perceive myself, I must behold something determinate, limited, finite – outward manifestations separated and alien from me.