Absolute Idea, the 'speculative nucleus"² of Hegelianism, is what remains after thinking (Truth) and doing (Good) abolish themselves. The Truth is that self-identical things pass away. The Good is the obliteration of all obstacles to the creation of a reality in which the subject is at home. The True Good is the realization that Absolute Idea has only itself as its obstacle. Idea "has given up the knowledge of itself as of something confronting the object of which it is only the annihilation." (69) "Knowing, then, will not be a representation … but a presentation … and consequently the negation of every and all given presence, be it that of an "object" or of a subject.""³ In short, exposition is the subject matter. The two coincide. For this reason,