The Philosophy of History

The Philosophy of HistoryHegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "philosophy of history" a novel concept in the early nineteenth century. With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age, fashioned by its antecedents and contemporary circumstances, and serving as a model for the future. The author

He considers Greek and Roman developments from their beginnings in Ionian rationalism to the fall of Constantinople

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a well-known philosopher and magician as well as a celebrated mathematician and logician

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