This solution seems to have been in line with Hegel’s way of conceiving of how to overcome oppositions in his early Jena writings. Unsurprisingly, however, he became dissatisfied with such a tactic because of its inherent limitations. This dissatisfaction shows explicitly for the first time in the preface of the Phenomenology of Spirit. From then onwards he tried in different ways to find a justification of idealism in sensu stricto, i.e., a justification of a view that (1) attributes priority t