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" Kant and Fichte had said that a man can discover the content of good and evil by his own judgment, independent of the views of society. Hegel rejects this approach as too individualistic. The principles of morality, he claims, are to be determined not by an individual’s mind but by his “real self,” the community or the state—whose traditions and laws, in Hegel’s opinion, constitute the real standard of good and evil. In the ethical man, Hegel tells us, the last vestiges of selfishness have disappeared: “the self-will of the individual has vanished together with his private conscience which had claimed independence....”38 "

Leonard Peikoff , The Ominous Parallels


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Leonard Peikoff quote : Kant and Fichte had said that a man can discover the content of good and evil by his own judgment, independent of the views of society. Hegel rejects this approach as too individualistic. The principles of morality, he claims, are to be determined not by an individual’s mind but by his “real self,” the community or the state—whose traditions and laws, in Hegel’s opinion, constitute the real standard of good and evil. In the ethical man, Hegel tells us, the last vestiges of selfishness have disappeared: “the self-will of the individual has vanished together with his private conscience which had claimed independence....”38