[Ads-l] Hegel Passage

[Laurence Horn]

I kind of like another line of Hegel's, which is easy to find on the internet (attributed to Hegel but without a specific source cited) but which I’d love to be able to cite with greater confidence. According to legend, Hegel stated on his deathbed:

†Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me."

I annotate this line with the diacritic † indicating that it’s only well-formed when uttered on one’s deathbed (and possibly only if the speaker is Hegel).  

Presumably this would not be sourced in Hegel's own work, but maybe in a memoir of someone present at the occasion?  It would be nice to be able to confirm that this line (or more exactly its German equivalent) was uttered on that one occasion. 

LH


> On Apr 19, 2017, at 11:56 AM, Stephen Goranson <goranson at DUKE.EDU> wrote:
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> According to HathiTrust
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> Hegel-Jahrbuch 1984-1985 pages 72, 77, and 78 have "difference in kind" and page 80 has "difference in degree."
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> SG
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> I have been asked to locate a famous Hegel passage in which he says that difference in kind can sometimes convert to difference in degree.  I can find only vague references that do not cite to a specific passage.  Can anyone help with this?
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> Fred Shapiro
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