Q0340

G. W. F. Hegel

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English

The true is thus the Bacchanalian revel in which no member is not drunk.
Thinker G. W. F. Hegel
School German idealism
Source Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface
Theme Truth
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Source context

This English passage is associated with Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface, within the tradition of German idealism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of truth, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In G. W. F. Hegel's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

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  1. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.
  2. The true is the whole.
  3. Self-consciousness attains its satisfaction only in another self-consciousness.
  4. What is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational.

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More on truth

  1. Once in a lifetime, everything must be doubted.
  2. The things we conceive very clearly and very distinctly are all true.
  3. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.
  4. The true is precisely what is made.
  5. Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

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