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Full Idea
The highest truth, truth as such, is the resolution of the highest opposition and contradiction.
Gist of Idea
Genuine truth is the resolution of the highest contradiction
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Lectures on Aesthetics [1826], I: 99), quoted by Stephen Houlgate - An Introduction to Hegel 09 'Art'
Book Ref
Houlgate,Stephen: 'An Introduction to Hegel' [Blackwell 2005], p.211
A Reaction
Uneasy about the word 'highest', and the general Hegelian dream of 'resolving' contradictions, rather than just eliminating at least one component of them. No one else uses the word 'truth' like this. I suppose this Truth has a capital 'T'.