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Hegel, G W F ⟨System of Ethical Life and First Philosophy of Spirit ⟩ 1979 p.247 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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[T]he satisfaction of the totality of [the individual’s] needs is a labor of everyone. Between the range of needs of the single [agent], and his activity on that account, there enters the labor of the whole people, and the labor of any one is in respect of its contents, a universal labor for the needs of all, so as to be appropriate for the satisfaction of all of his needs. (p.247)

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