law and ideals necessarily always used to justify power?
or only contingently?
reason born of unreason, but
the beautiful possibility of true reason, of universal spirit, of
unity
once we have expiated our sins, excavated our past
Nietzschean genealogy a condition of Hegelian self-realization
the possibility of law of love and harmony
trajectory:
1. acknowledge the illegitimacy at the source of law
2. atone for it
3. posit possibility of true legitimacy, of universal law
we're in the midst of phase 2
it's time to start conceiving phase 3, bending toward the light outside the cave: the beautiful presupposition of oneness
