The following paragraph is a little chunk taken from
From Plato to Nato, a recommended text for my Politics module:
"The basis of the State, says Hegel, is the power of reason actualising itself as will. Men will the State in accordance with reason. The State is reason. It is mind on earth consciously realising itself there. It is the actuality of the ethical Idea. Actuality is the unity both of essence and of existence. Only when mind is present in consciousness, when it knows itself as a really existent object, is it the State."I stared at word after word, trying to link the former to the latter. I was struggling to understand... then I read on. The next sentence following that paragraph was, "Are you with me?"
It then went on to explain everything. Phew. And for a moment I thought I was supposed to comprehend that all that jargon.
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