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Comment: ” …….all human history is a process whereby ideas· objectify themselves in material reality. (Hegel)

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  • Western Political Thought

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The line condenses the philosophy of history of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, set out in the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) and the Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (delivered 1822–31, published 1837). For Hegel reason is not a spectator of history but its substance: Spirit (Geist) externalises itself in laws, customs and states, and…

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