“In the “fulfillment” of both the laws and duty, … the moral disposition ceases to be the universal, opposed to inclination, and inclination ceases to be particular, opposed to the law.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate (1799)

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German philosopher 1770–1831

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