Problem
• What is the guilt of Hegel's Oedipus? Explain how the distinction between deed and action, and purpose and responsibility, is exemplified in Oedipus. Oedipus is one of Hegel's references of a complex crime, he represents "Morality." (Cf. Crime/ responsibility in the French Revolution is another of Hegel's references, see p. 143; and Antigone's deed is still another complex crime.)
• What is the guilt of Hegel's Antigone? Explain how the distinction between deed and action, and purpose and responsibility, is exemplified in Antigone. Antigone (Oedipus' daughter and sister) has a degree of individuation (through her deed) which makes her into a representative of the next and higher stage of Spirit, "Ethical Life." Antigone is a "member" of the Substance of the family, through her life becomes expressed a "necessity," the completed "circle of necessity" of the properly philosophical "concept" of the Actual universal. She realizes the actuality of the rational universal, i.e., the "substantial" individual of Ethical life, for she brings this actuality outside of the limitations of mere possibility and into being, an existing necessity (cf. §145; cf. also on love, §158, Addition (H), p. 199.