The place in the universal ethical life of guilt and crime, of deeds and actions will find more definite expression later; but this much is immediately evident, that it is not this particular individual who acts and is guilty; for as this self he is only the unreal.shadow, or he existsme as a universal self, and individuality is purely theformal moment of the action as such, the content being the laws and customs which, for the indivi dual, are those of his class and station.