That immediate law-giving is thus the tyrannical insolence which makes wilfulness into a law and ethics into obedience to such wilfulness,—obedience to laws which are merely laws and not at the same time commands.
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). copy citation

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Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Source The Phenomenology of Spirit
Topic ethics obedience
Date 1807
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Inwood
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