Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

The State is the reality of the moral idea – the moral spirit as substantial will, manifest and clear to itself, which thinks and knows itself, and accomplishes what it knows and in so far as it knows.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

Context

Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Part 3, Section 3, Paragraph 257

Date / Period

1821

Source

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/pr/prspirit.htm

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