The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his… - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.

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About Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher considered one of the most important figures in German idealism. He is one of the fundamental figures of 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.

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Alternative Names: George William Frederick Hegel G. W. F. Hegel Hegel G.W.F. Hegel GWF Hegel
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Las representaciones dadas por la sensación y la intuición son, según su contenido, algo plural, y también
lo son igualmente según su forma, es decir, por la exterioridad recíproca
de la sensibilidad en sus dos formas, espacio y tiempo, las cuales en
cuanto formas (o lo universal) del intuir son ellas mismas a priori. Eso
plural del sensar e intuir es conducido a identidad, a una conexión originaria,
en tanto que el yo lo refiere a sí mismo y lo une a sí en tanto conciencia
una (apercepción pura). Las maneras determinadas de ese referir
son los conceptos puros del entendimiento, las categorías.

I saw the Emperor—this world-soul—riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.

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