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Hegel's Reason

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The American Critique of Hegel

The dominant American critique of Hegel that comes from this section is that he makes individuality to be the same thing as conformity in the reason governance date. I would maybe quarrel with what that person means by a reason to govern state right because if Hegel's understanding of reason is the ability to apprehend a contradiction then that means it's a state that is itself held together in contradictionYeah no no that doesn't make any sense at all. If you're going to marry morality and politics, isn't that what you'regoing to have like that? That just seems kind of interesting how that so isn't that the kind of flip side of of so Kant doesn't do that?"

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