That night, in a letter to a friend, he couldn't help writing: "I saw the emperor, the spirit of the world, patrolling the city on horseback." It really makes me feel strange to see such an individual who controls the world and dominates it, but focuses on one point in front of him and rides on horseback. "
Hegel's philosophy expounded the absolute spirit. In Hegel's view, all world history is a history of absolute spiritual self-alienation and self-return from this alienation. As a subject who can think and practice, man contains divinity. Only in man can God and spirit have a relationship with the world.
This absolute spirit is the free spirit of self. Napoleon on horseback is the most outstanding representative of this spirit of freedom.
This world spirit is not unique to Napoleon, and everyone can be Yao and Shun.
Why? Because absolute spirit has free will, everyone can achieve their goals. The world spirit that has been achieved is full of vitality and a thriving school.
All this should be guided by self-awareness.
If the spiritual self-consciousness is in ignorance, it will put the absolute spirit in a deep sleep.
Man's mission is to awaken the sleeping self-consciousness and constantly develop and strengthen himself. Let your will soar.
On the other hand, spirit exists in the real world.
How to embody the free will of the spirit? Then we must create the future and transform the world in reality. Reality is the touchstone of spirit and the nourishment of spiritual growth.
Spirit must establish a thorough realistic principle and enter reality. In Fichte's words, action is greater and nobler than all knowledge, and it contains the ultimate goal of knowledge itself. Your actions, and only your actions, determine your value. Only in action can we constantly enrich the absolute spirit.
And once you follow the realistic operating rules, you admit that the spirit should aim at strength. Power is the key factor that determines the development of reality.
So the world on horseback is synonymous with a big country.