Oonsequently, we are not faced with the sorry spectacle of a collision between passion and duty, nor with the comic spectacle of a collision between duty and duty a collision which, as regards its content, is the same as that between passion and duty; for passion is equally capable of being seen as a duty, because when consciousness separates itself from its immediate) substantial essence and withdraws into itself, it becomes the merely formal universal into which one content as wen as another fits equally well as we found before.