# Lectures on the Philosophy of World History  ## Metadata - Author: [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Duncan Forbes, and Hugh Barr Nisbet]] - Full Title: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History - Category: #books ## Highlights - This infinite right of the subject is the second essential moment of freedom, in that the subject must itself be satisfied by whatever activity or task it performs. ([Location 2135](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00HSO8AO4&location=2135)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The first principle of the Idea in this form, as already remarked, is the Idea itself as an abstract entity; and the second is that of human passion. ([Location 2155](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00HSO8AO4&location=2155)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The will of the individual is free if he can determine his volitions absolutely, abstractly, and in and for himself. ([Location 2161](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00HSO8AO4&location=2161)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The human passions are satisfied in much the same way: they fulfil themselves and their ends in accordance with their specific nature, and thereby create the edifice of human society in which justice and order are given power over the passions themselves. ([Location 2173](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00HSO8AO4&location=2173)) - Tags: [[pink]] - For the universal can only be realised by means of the particular. ([Location 2183](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00HSO8AO4&location=2183)) - Tags: [[pink]]