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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

FRIEDRICH HEGEL’S QUOTE ON HISTORY



One of my favourite philosophers, Friedrich Hegel was born on this date, 27 August 1770. He would have been 243 years old if he was alive today! I will post a quote from him. 


Friedrich Hegel
QUOTE: What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it. [Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)]

AUTHOR: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (German: [ˈɡeɔɐ̯k ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈheːɡəl]; August 27, 1770 – November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher, and a major figure in German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. 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. In particular, he developed the concept that mind or spirit manifested itself in a set of contradictions and oppositions that it ultimately integrated and united, without eliminating either pole or reducing one to the other. Examples of such contradictions include those between nature and freedom, and between immanence and transcendence.

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