Note 5 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
The antithesis has two members: the partial ego, and the non-ego, which confronts. The synthesis is a putting together two separate things, so as to correlate them; but it falls short of what would be understood in some present usage by 'synthetic unity' which has a certain mystical ring. It is important for a student of Schelling or Hegel to remember this distinction of synthesis from 'absolute unity e.g. Schelling, Werke, v. 43.