The living ethical world is spirit in its truth ; when spirit first arrives at abstract knowledge of its essence, the ethical order is submerged in the formal universality of right.
 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 universality truth
Date 1807
Language English
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Note Translated by Michael Inwood
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