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Mediation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not seriousness — that is a poor jest and a new motive for the comic; it has no place in the sphere of freedom, where freedom is constantly becoming.

Mediation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠where the aesthete and philosophy meet: one mediates contradictions in a higher madness, the other in a higher unity; both reach the same result — life comes to a stop.

Mediation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an equivocal word: it names both the movement between two terms and the rest they come to — movement and rest at once.

Mediation (n.) joins ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠negation and transition as the three disguised, suspicious secret agents that bring about all the movements in Hegel's logic.

Mediation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a foreign word for what Danish already calls repetition — Hegel's brag dressed in borrowed clothes.