Just as in purposive connection in general, where the realized purpose is again only a means but the means is conversely also the realized purpose, so too now in the syllogism of the good the second premise is already immediately present in the first in itself, except that this immediacy is not sufficient and the second premise is for the first already postulated the realization of the good in the face of another actuality confronting it is the mediation which is essentially necessary for the immediate connection and consummation of the good.