Question Re: Hegel

[Chris Brooke]

>Any listers familiar enough with Hegel to substantiate the following quote?
>I know the first is from Philosphy of Right but I am not sure if the second
>is a paraphrase or not.
>
>First quote: "It is only with the fall of dusk that the owl of Minerva
>spreads its wings."
>
>Second quote (?) "The owl of Minerva flies at midnight."

T. M. Knox's translation: "The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only 
with the falling of the dusk". (Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Oxford, 
1942, p.13, final sentence of the penultimate paragraph of the 
Preface).

The second one just seems to be a mangled attempt at a paraphrase.

Chris
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