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Hegel, G W F ⟨System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit⟩ 1979 p.113 Book Hegel Citations
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System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit

by Hegel, G W F (1979)

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In the tool the subjectivity of labor is raised to something universal. Anyone can make a similar tool and work with it. To this extent the tool is the persistent norm of labor... This is why, on Hegel’s view, ‘all peoples living on the natural level have honored the tool. (p.113)

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