Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit

Let us pick some paragraphs in Phenomenology of Spirit .

600. Out of this determination, there is a moral worldview which develops and gives shape to itself. This moral worldview consists in the relation between moral being-in-and-for-itself and natural being-in-and-for-itself. Lying at the basis of this relation is the complete indifference and the selfsufficiency of both nature and of moral purposes and activities with respectto each other, and, on the other side of the coin, there is the consciousness of the sole essentiality of duty and of the complete non-self-sufficiency and inessentiality of nature. The moral worldview contains the development of the moments which are contained in this relation between such entirely conflicting presuppositions.

71. We must hold on to the conviction that it is the nature of truth to prevail when its time has come, and that it only appears when its time has come, and that it thus never appears too early nor does it appear for a public not yet ripe enough to receive it. We must also hold on to the conviction that the individual requires this effect in order to confirm for himself what is as yet for him still only his own solitary affair and in order for him to experience as universal what is initially only something particular to him.