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The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 2 (of 4)

Note 243 — Chapter II

Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston translation

Put more simply we may say in popular terminology that it is filled up or amplified by virtue of the sense of individual personality. This Hegel himself further elucidates below. Falstaff undoubtedly possessed a strong personality, but in his famous soliloquy on honour he deliberately emptied himself of any sense of it by refusing to view himself under the self-relation, that is self-respect.

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