On possessed individualism: Hegel, Socrates' Daimon, and the modern state.

From: The Review of Metaphysics | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Socrates could thus very well afford to be ignorant; he had a genius, on whose science he could rely, which he loved and feared as his god, whose peace was more important to him than all the reason of the Egyptians and Greeks.

J. G. Hamann, Socratic Memorabilia (1759)

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RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON HEGEL'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY has stressed its place in the modern tradition of reflection on autonomy and rights, thus rejecting negative assessments of Hegel as an authoritarian, post-Napoleonic "Prussian" opponent of liberalism (Karl Popper and others) as well as revising ...

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