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Friedrich Hegel
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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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