李榮添 : 歷史之理性 -- 黑格爾歷史哲學導論述析 ( Hoffmeister, Nisbet)

李榮添 : 歷史之理性 -- 黑格爾歷史哲學導論述析 ( Hoffmeister, Nisbet)
excerpted from Lectures on the Philosophy of World History : Introduction : Reason in History. Hoffmeister ed. tr. by Nisbet.
( Nisbet, page 59 )

page 59 Hegel's clock--natural death

1. it may also be that the nation has relinquished ( 放棄; 撤出; ) certain aspect of its end and contented (滿足的) itself with more LIMITED aims.

2. Even if its imagination transcended these limits, it nevertheless ABANDONED its wider objectives if no opportunity of realising them presented itself, and restricted itself to what reality PERMITTED.

3.It then lives on with the satisfaction of having achieved its end, FALLS INTO FIXED HABITS which are now devoid of life, and thus moves gradually on towards its natural DEATH.

4. Its greatest and highest interest has VANISHED out of its life; for no interest is possible without some kind of OPPOSITION.

-- to live in harmony as an In-itself statically. . . ! !

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