Together with the idea of fate, its counterpart, that of fame is also revived by Hegel: ‘Individuals … are instruments … What they personally gain … through the individual share they take in the substantial business (prepared and appointed independently of them) is … Fame, which is their reward.’83 And Stapel, a propagator of the new paganized Christianity, promptly repeats: ‘All great deeds were done for the sake of fame or glory.’ But this ‘Christian’ moralist is even more radical than Hegel: ‘Metaphysical glory is the one true morality’, he teaches, and the ‘Categorical Imperative’ of this
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