Morality – that authority which has the incontestable right to determine men’s actions, which therefore is the only absolutely free and unlimited power – is no longer a compulsory enactment, but the free choice of human beings. The good man would make Law for himself if he found none made for him.
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1837). copy citation

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Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Source Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Topic morality action
Date 1837
Language English
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Note Translated by J. Sibree
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