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das Aufgehobensein [...] in einer Realität

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German term or phrase:	das Aufgehobensein in [...]
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15:39 Jun 26, 2009

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German term or phrase: das Aufgehobensein [...] in einer Realität

Es geht um die spirituelle Erfahrung, in einer umgreifenden Realitaet "aufgehoben" zu sein. Was wuerdet ihr darunter verstehen? Being a part of? Being governed by? Enveloped?

Emma Rault KudoZ activity Questions: 76 (9 open) (1 without valid answers) (3 closed without grading) Answers: 0 United Kingdom
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being/feeling at home in / at peace with / supported by

Explanation:
again (for clarity):
being/feeling at home in
being/feeling at peace with
being/feeling supported by
also:
being/feeling secure in (http://www.dict.cc/?s=geborgen)

While I do not think of any of these as a full equivalent, the experience of “Aufgehobensein” seems to encompass these options more or less. Note that “Aufgehobensein” has a decidedly positive (yet not necessarily kitschy) connotation, as in “being/feeling in good hands”.

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Gert Sass (M.A.)
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being/feeling at home in / at peace with / supported by

Gert Sass (M.A.)

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immersed

DonM

to be raised up, suspended, and sublimated into a higher reality

John Fenz

2 +1

belonging to/being part of

Armorel Young

to be sheltered in an overarching reality....

gangels

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"...merged with the surrounding reality..."	Audrey Foster

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belonging to/being part of

Explanation:
This is mighty difficult without knowing more about the tone and content of your article, but "the spiritual experience of being part of an encompassing reality" might fit.

I toyed with "being cocooned in" or "being ensconced in", but I doubt that these fit the tone of your piece. I don't think it's anything to do with "being governed by" - it's just about being "embedded" and at home in it.

Armorel Young
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immersed

Explanation:
Assuming the text is pitched closer to Buddhism than to Hegelianism, this could do the trick.

DonM
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being/feeling at home in / at peace with / supported by

Gert Sass (M.A.)
Germany
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to be sheltered in an overarching reality....

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gangels
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1 day7 hrs confidence:

to be raised up, suspended, and sublimated into a higher reality

Explanation:
First

Hegel (and Schiller before him) use the term aufheben to capture the "business" of phenomenology, i.e. what Spirit "does" or "accomplishes" through the process of the dialectic.

I'm not at all sure that the Hegelian use of the term fits your context, but I thought you might want to know that the term is central to Hegelian thought. Any modern philosophical text that is using this term probably assumes some familiarity with Hegel's use of the concept.

The problem for English readers is that this single German concept (at least as Hegel used it) is not readily translated by a single term, but requires a combination of terms to convey the full range of meaning.

I've included links to two standard references (relevant excerpts in Google Books) that may help you decide how you want to translate the term.

In the spirit of Hegel By Robert C. Solomon

[AUFHEBEN]: This is one of the few German terms that is well-enough known to English readers to deserve its own entry.
It is usually translated by Miller as "supersede," by Baillie as "sublate," by Kaufmann’s "sublimate." In ordinary German it means "to pick something up"; in the dialectic of the Phenomenology it means to move on, but keeping or conserving what has come before it…[something is]…partially "cancelled," partially transcended ("aufgehoben"), and ...finally emerg[es] at that [latter] stage of "development"....

Footnote 83. Actually, [this problem] is said to be aufgehoben, "lifted up" or "cancelled and preserved." But...all it really says is that a form is never simply rejected but analyzed, evaluated, enlarged, or replaced by one akin to it (even its opposite).

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A Hegel dictionary By M. J. Inwood

SUBLATION:
The verb heben is related to 'heave' and originally meant 'to seize, grasp', but now means 'to lift, raise; to remove (especially an adversary from his saddle, hence) to supplant him; to remove (e.g. a difficulty, a contradiction)'. It enters many compounds, the most significant for Hegel being aufheben ('to sublate'). Aufheben has three main senses:
(1) 'to raise, to hold, lift up'.
(2) 'to annul, abolish, destroy, cancel, suspend'.
(3) 'to keep, save, preserve'.

…The noun Aufhebung similarly means (1) 'raising up'; (2) 'abolition'; and (3) 'preserving'...

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Search "aufheben" in Solomon's "In the Spirit of Hegel" and in Inwood's "Hegel Dictionary" and you will get a better sense of
1. The difficulties translator's have had in translating this term
2. Some sense of what the term means, at least in a Hegelian sense
3. Whether these definitions are at all relevant to your text

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John Fenz
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Reference: "...merged with the surrounding reality..."

Reference information:
Thus the technique is merged with the surrounding reality by the nature of the Absolute. The mystery of this nature is that its emptyness cannot be described as ”nothing” although it is not ”something” either; it is not the both at the same time nor the opposite of that. The Absolute is but two swords and two heavens in one.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&frie...

Audrey Foster
United States
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English

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