Philosophy · Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Philosophy
A topic within Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Philosophy, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
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G. W. F. Hegel
Argues that world history is the rational unfolding of freedom's self-consciousness, in which each civilisation's rise and fall is a necessary stage rather than an accident.
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Traces consciousness through a sequence of shapes, each collapsing under its own internal contradictions into a more adequate one, until spirit comes to know itself as the whole process rather than as one more object within it.
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