Now the idea has shown itself to be the concept liberated again into its subjectivity from the immediacy into which it has sunk in the object; it is the concept that distinguishes itself from its objectivity but an objectivity which is no less determined by it and possesses its substantiality only in that concept This identity has therefore rightly been designated as a subject object, for it is just as well the formal or subjective concept as it is the object as such.