Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Hegel influenced writers of widely varying positions including both his admirers (Strauss Bauer Feuerbach T. H. Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework or "system" of Absolute idealism to account in an integrated and developmental way for the relation of mind and nature the subject and object of knowledge psychology the state history art religion and philosophy.