The Philosophy of Right; The Philosophy of History; Fear and Trembling; Beyond Good and Evil
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“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom; a progress whose development according to the necessity of its nature it is our business to investigate.” (Page 168)
“But as a general truth this must be regarded as settled: that whatever in the world possesses claims as noble and glorious has nevertheless a higher existence above it. The claim of the world-spirit rises above all special claims.” (Page 177)
“Faith is the highest passion in a man. There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even reach it, but no one gets further.” (Page 454)
“The ethical expression for what Abraham did is, that he would murder Isaac; the religious expression is, that he would sacrifice Isaac; but precisely in this contradiction consists the dread which can well make a man sleepless, and yet Abraham is not what he is without this dread.” (Page 412)
“The second kind of history we may call the reflective. It is history whose mode of representation is not really confined by the limits of the time to which it relates, but whose spirit transcends the present.” (Page 160)
- Title: The Philosophy of Right; The Philosophy of History; Fear and Trembling; Beyond Good and Evil
- Authors: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche
- Edition: Second Edition
- Series: Great Books of the Western World
- Volume: 43
- Publishers: Encyclopedia Britannica, Robert P. Gwinn
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Philosophy
- ISBNs: 0852295316, 9780852295311
- Resource ID: LLS:GBWW43
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:11:38Z