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

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Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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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