Hegel: Philosophy in an Hour

ant had based his moral philosophy upon his so-called categorical imperative: ‘One should act only in accordance with such a maxim as one would simultaneously will should become a universal law’.

I seek to be reconciled with myself, and with other men, in the arms of Nature’, he wrote. ‘For this reason I often fly to this true mother, to isolate myself from other men in her company. She enables me to protect myself from them, and prevent any covenant with them’.

‘Love of money is the root of all evil’

that causality was merely one of the ways in which we apprehend the world – like space and time, color, and so forth