Even Hegel contradicted universal reason by locating it in a particular state

Evidence

For Hegel particular knowledges—one-sided knowledge, knowledge at any particular “moment”—were always partial. Analytic Reason could not overcome this limit. But in Dialectical Reason Hegel glimpsed the possibility of a truly universal knowledge. If one “moment” consisted of the objectivation of Mind in History, another “moment” represented the appropriation of History in Mind. Thoroughgoing idealist as he was, Hegel fixed the final apotheosis in the second of those synthetic leaps—in the disappearance of the “Real” into the “Rational.” Then—just like the Revolutionary savants before him—he could not resist actually locating this Universal Moment in a particular historical conjuncture. The savants chose Napoleon; Hegel chose the Prussian state. This “concretization” served Hegel no better than Napoleon had served the savants . — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 326

Categorization

• XREF: The parallel between the savants’ Napoleon and Hegel’s Prussian state is a striking historical symmetry that connects to the broader theme of intellectuals’ disastrous patronage gambles.