The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Hegel on the Conditionality of his own Political Philosophy
"To comprehend what is the task of philosophy, for what is is reason. As far as the individual is concerned, each individual is in any case a child of his time; thus philosophy, too is its own time grasped in thoughts. It is just as foolish to imagine that any philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as that an individual can overleap his own time, or leap over Rhodes." G.W.F. Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. H.B. Nisbet, ed. A. Wood. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 21-22.
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