[lit-ideas] FYI The Owl of Minerva
- From: Rhyme and Reason <rhymereason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:48:16 +1000
Only one word more concerning the desire to teach the world what it ought
to be. For such a purpose philosophy at least always comes too late. Philosophy,
as the thought of the world, does not appear until reality has completed
its formative process, and made itself ready. History thus corroborates the
teaching of the conception that only in the maturity of reality does the ideal
appear as counterpart to the real, apprehends the real world in its substance,
and shapes it into an intellectual kingdom. When philosophy paints its grey
in grey, one form of life has become old, and by means of grey it cannot be
rejuvenated, but only known. The owl of Minerva, takes its flight only when
the shades of night are gathering.
Hegel's Philosophy of Right
BERLIN, June 25th, 1820.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/
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