The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law … loses its universality and the subject its particularity; both lose their opposition, while in the Kantian conception of virtue this opposition remains, and the universal becomes the master and the particular the mastered.


Der Geist des Christentums und sein Schicksal [The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate] (1799)


The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law … loses its universality and the subject its particularity;...

The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law … loses its universality and the subject its particularity;...

The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law … loses its universality and the subject its particularity;...

The inclination to act as the laws command, a virtue, is a synthesis in which the law … loses its universality and the subject its particularity;...