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xxi Acknowledgments I would like to thank Professor H. S. Harris for his careful reading and comments on earlier versions of this work. He is a model of philosophical humility, acumen, and responsibility. I am also indebted to Professor Kenneth Schmitz. He first introduced me to Hegel and his philosophical prodding has taught me to look deeply into the subject at hand. I would also like to thank Professor Graeme Nicholson and Professor Joseph Owens at the University of Toronto, and Professor H. F. Fulda and Dr. Harald Pilot (both at the University of Heidelberg) for their insight and help. Two anonymous readers at the State University of New York Press were enormously helpful and I am very grateful for their fruitful challenges and suggestions . I thank the University of Toronto for its support during the initial writing of this work, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst for a year-long research fellowship at the University of Heidelberg. I would also like to thank professor Jay Lampert at the University of Guelph for his helpful editorial suggestions on parts of the final draft. ...

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