Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes


Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.


Citations

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. The Logic of Hegel. Translated by William Wallace, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1892, p. 350.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Born: August 27, 1770
  • Died: November 14, 1831
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and is considered one of the most important figures in German idealism. He is also considered one of the fundamental figures of modern Western philosophy, with his influence extending to the entire range of contemporary philosophical issues, from aesthetics to ontology to politics, both in the analytic and continental tradition.