Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

The individual, in so far as he is a particular individual, is not the true object of morality.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

Context

Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Part III, Ethical Life, Section I, The Family, §158

Date / Period

1821

Source

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

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