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By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Eschewing the tools of unique historical past (written in the course of the interval in query) and reflective heritage (written after the interval has passed), Hegel embraces philosophic heritage, which employs a priori philosophical notion to interpret background as a rational technique. cause ideas heritage, he asserts, via its countless freedom (being self-sufficient, it will depend on not anything past its personal legislation and conclusions) and tool (through which it types its personal laws). Hegel argues that every one of historical past is brought on and guided through a rational strategy, and God's probably unknowable plan is rendered intelligible via philosophy. The idea that cause ideas the area, he concludes, is either essential to the perform of philosophic background and a end drawn from that practice.
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What makes men morally discontented (a discontent, by the bye, on which they somewhat pride themselves), is that they do not find the present adapted to the realization of aims which they hold to be right and just (more especially in modern times, ideals of political constitutions); they contrast unfavorably things as they are, with their idea of things as they ought to be. F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History, 50 adopts a position not merely of discontent, but of open revolt against the actual condition of the world.
The connection of events above indicated, involves also the fact, that in history an additional result is commonly produced by human actions beyond that which they aim at and obtain — that which they immediately recognize and desire. They gratify their own interest; but something further is thereby accomplished, latent in the actions in question, though not present to their consciousness, and not included in their design. An analogous example is offered in the case of a man who, from a feeling of revenge — perhaps not an unjust one, but produced by injury on the other’s part — burns that other man’s house.
This plan philosophy strives to comprehend; for only that which has been developed as the result of it, possesses bond fide reality. That which does not accord with it, is negative, worthless existence. Before the pure light of this divine Idea — which is no mere Ideal — the phantom of a world whose events are an incoherent concourse of fortuitous circumstances, utterly vanishes. Philosophy wishes to discover the substantial purport, the real side, of the divine idea, and to justify the so much despised Reality of things; for Reason is the comprehension of the Divine work.