verjüngern], but only understood; the owl of Minerva begins her flight only with the onset of dusk" (HW 7:28). To the extent that philosophy reflects on a solidified shape of life, it is able to make sense of the lessons gleaned through historical experience. More specifically, Hegel is suggesting that what it means to be free is something we can learn at a certain moment in our own development — and no earlier. In other words, it is only once freedom has become actual that we can know what freedom would even be, because only then has our conception of it proven to stand the test of time, instead of entangling itself in self-contradiction, as previous conceptions have done." /> Hegel — life, history, system - Novakovic Andreja | sdvig press