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{{Quote|"While singular individuality is thus mingled into the woman’s relationship, her ethical life is not pure. However, insofar as she is ethical, singular individuality is a matter of indifference, and the wife dispenses with the moment of cognizing herself as this self in an other."|''Phenomenology of Spirit''}} | {{Quote|"While singular individuality is thus mingled into the woman’s relationship, her ethical life is not pure. However, insofar as she is ethical, singular individuality is a matter of indifference, and the wife dispenses with the moment of cognizing herself as this self in an other."|''Phenomenology of Spirit''}} | ||
{{Quote|"I need only give examples for my sentence, which everyone will admit to contain it. So a murderer is led to the place of execution. Ladies may remark that he is a strong, handsome, interesting man. Those people find the remark appalling: what a murderer is beautiful? How can one be so badly thinking and call a murderer beautiful; you are probably something not much better! This is a corruption of morals that reigns among the noble people, perhaps the priest who knows the reason for things and the hearts adds."|''Who Thinks Abstractly?}} | {{Quote|"I need only give examples for my sentence, which everyone will admit to contain it. So a murderer is led to the place of execution. Ladies may remark that he is a strong, handsome, interesting man. Those people find the remark appalling: what a murderer is beautiful? How can one be so badly thinking and call a murderer beautiful; you are probably something not much better! This is a corruption of morals that reigns among the noble people, perhaps the priest who knows the reason for things and the hearts adds."|''Who Thinks Abstractly?}} | ||
{{Quote|"The man's dominion is scientific universal cognition, and so art is also the object of the man, for although it is presented in individuality, it is a universal, a universal idea, the imagination | |||
inspired by reason, the Idea of a universal. These are the man's provinces. There can be exceptions for individual women, but the exception is not the rule. Women, when they trespass into these provinces, put the provinces themselves in danger|Quoted in Allen W. Wood (ed) 2012, ''Elements of the philosophy of right'', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 439}} | |||
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==1772-1801: Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (Novalis)== | ==1772-1801: Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (Novalis)== | ||