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Democracy and Its Discontents
The nineteenth-century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel made a rather pithy observation in the preface to his book, Elements of the Philosophy of Right: “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings
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The nineteenth-century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel made a rather pithy observation in the preface to his book, Elements of the Philosophy of Right: “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.” What Hegel means by this poetic metaphor is that true philosophical understanding and wisdom can only happen retrospectively. [...]
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