/lit/ - Literature

>>4315826

He was the state philosopher of Prussia and so enamored the Prussian state as the be-all end-all.

Another mistake is to associate that quote with your own words here >>4315813


"Freedom is just thought itself; he who casts thought aside and speaks of freedom knows not what he is talking of. The unity of thought with itself is freedom, the free will. Thought, as volition merely, is the impulse to abrogate one's subjectivity, the relation to present existence, the realizing of oneself, since in that I am endeavouring to place myself as existent on an equality with myself as thinking. It is only as having the power of thinking that the will is free." Lectures on the History of Philosophy, III, 402.

Pandering to the prussian state really did hegel long-term damage.