... Revolutionaries can be condemned. Hegel's views on the role of the individual can be seen and used to justify the Revolution. Individual freedom can also be woven into these ideas and living in a community or society is how Hegel saw the individual fulfilling their life. Hegel agreed with the ideas of the classical Greeks in as much that he thought the individual should lead an ethical life or sittlichkeit. In this ideal each individual has obligations to the community in which they live. Hegel rejected Kant's view of the freedom of the individual as he saw Kantian philosophy as rejecting the rest of the community and that an individual is a self-contained unit for whom history starts and finishes in their own lifetime. Hegel looked at this differently: "Because humans act collectively to promote their freedom, the primary question of modern political philosophy, on Hegel's view, is not a priori what ...

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