Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.