“ The ‘elemental individual’ is the earth, as a metaphor for the family. When the individual breaks loose from the family to become a leading citizen, the earth-family draws him back into the abstraction of death. ”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). copy citation
Author | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel |
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Source | The Phenomenology of Spirit |
Topic | death abstraction |
Date | 1807 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Michael Inwood |
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