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Hegel, G W F ⟨System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit ⟩ 1979 p.230 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 labor, desire wrenches the object to be nullified entirely out of its context, specifies it, and posits it as connected with a desiring. (p.230)

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