a complaint about Hegel is that he idolizes the state and detracts from the importance and significance of the individual. but this critique seems to me to be unfair because his general approach across the board is that noting has reality except in so far as it corresponds to its true concept. And then one might ask what Is the true idea of a state. Hegel sensed this and said that “the USA is the state of the future,” meaning that its principle corresponded most closely with the ideal state. See the essay of Kaufman about Hegel. On the other hand the approach of Leonard Nelson and Kelley Ross is also important as to answering the problem of how knowledge i possible as different and opposed to opinion