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Comment: “State is a march of God on the Earth.” (Hegel)

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  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence is a popular English version of an addition to §258 of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1820), compiled by his editor Eduard Gans from students' lecture notes: "es ist der Gang Gottes in der Welt, daß der Staat ist". Thomas Malcolm Knox rendered it "The march of God in the world,…

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  • What Hegel Meant
  • The Charge of State Worship
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