At the outset of the section on ‘Spirit’ in The Phenomenology of Spirit (1977) Hegel describes how the human spirit over the course of its gradual externalization and realization falls apart into two separate ethical substances, as human law and divine law respectively (§445). Human law is the reflection of the creation of a universality embodied in the state, whereas divine law is connected to an experience of individuality as concretely manifested in the family. In the moral order of the state, the individual recognizes itself as a universal being under universal obligations, whereas the system of the family binds it to an inner, or as Hegel writes, ‘unconscious’ ethical order.