Friedrich Hegel
Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelwas a German philosopher and an important figure of German Idealism. He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, has become increasingly influential in the analytic tradition as well. Although he remains a divisive figure, his canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized...
consciousness freedom history none
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
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Dialectics gives expression to a law which is felt in all grades of consciousness and in general experience. Everything that surrounds us may be viewed as an instance of dialectic. We are aware that everything finite, instead of being inflexible, is rather changeable and transient; and this is exactly what we mean by the dialectic of the finite, by which the finite, as implicitly other than it is, is forced to surrender its own immediate or natural being, and turn suddenly into its opposite.
consciousness freedom progress
(History) The progress of the consciousness of freedom
history history-and-historians learn
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
acted action experience history learned people principles teaches
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it
success creativity independent
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
mistaken
I have the courage to be mistaken.
ethical-principles two people
Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.
two rights deep-thought
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
two synthesis truth-is
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
thoughtful thinking ideas
Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.
essence moments modern
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.
essence substance spirit
The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
pages soil periods
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.