In effect, if Hegel's attitude opposes scientific consciousness and an endless ordering of discursive thought to the naivete of sacrifice, this consciousness and this ordering still have a point of obscurity: it could not be said that Hegel misconstrued the moment of sacrifice: this moment is included, implied in the entire movement of the Phenomenology, in which it is the Negativity of death, insofar as man assumes it, that makes a man of the human animal.