The mentioned finitude of the content in the practical idea only means, therefore, that the idea is at first not yet realized; the concept is for the content that which exists in and for itself; it is here the idea in the form of objectivity existing for itself; on the one hand, the subjective is for this reason no longer just something posited, arbitrary or accidental, but is an absolute; but, on the other hand, this form of concrete existence, this being for itself, does not as yet have the form of the being initself.