“The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.”

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , book Elements of the Philosophy of Right

Die Person muß sich eine äußere Sphäre ihrer Freiheit geben, um als Idee zu sein.
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