Force as Movement

Understanding Hegel's explanation of force and the understanding requires one to consider the unity and movement between the excluding "One" and the "Also". Force is distinguished from "force proper", force being the movement from the One to the Also, and force proper the movement back from the Also to the One. We can see Hegel's universality in this division; force and force proper are identical as in they are both forces, but they are also completely opposite. For example, take the number series' 1,2,3,4,5 and 5,4,3,2,1. They are complete opposites of one another, yet they are also identical. The 4 is between the 5 and the 3, the 3 is between the 4 and the 2, and the 1 and 5 are on the extremes. This is one way that we can understand the unity of the excluding "One" and the "Also".

The Inverted World is the most mystical chapter in Hegel's phenomenology. and describes the a second "supersensible" world that contains the opposites of all objects, morals, propositions etc. The point of the paradoxical relationship between the sensory world and the supersensible is to illustrate that everything that appears has an inner appearance that does not manifest itself, i.e. salt is inwardly sweet, black, etc.