George Friedrich Hegel once remarked, “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” A paradox no doubt, but the modern liberal illustrates this truth. Don't let the opening line of this ...

THERE are two comparatively recent thinkers who are so often remembered and misunderstood in our day that I shall here venture upon the dangerous task of discussing afresh, and in as untechnical ...

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For fanaticism wills only what is abstract, not what is articulated, so that whenever differences emerge, it finds them incompatible with its own indeterminacy and cancels them. This is why the people ...

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Robert Stern does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Read in the context of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, George Eliot's novels depict individual spiritual progress toward full self-consciousness through an individual's conceptual relation to the ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.54.4.0333 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/philrhet.54.4.0333 Copy URL ABSTRACT In this short text, I analyze various senses ...