WORLD-HISTORICAL INDIVIDUALS & THE STATE. Georg HEGEL. Lecture 2 of *The Philosophy of Politics: From the French Revolution to World War II*

Hegel: “Only the right of the world-spirit is the unlimited absolute.” And: “A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole. Hence if the state claims life, the individual must surrender it.” About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen Hicks takes […]