
Episode 15: Hegel on History
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Origin of the Opposite
I keep feeling like we should talk more to understand this, about dialectic because the reason that society will always go a certain direction. If there is a powerful person, if there's not one of these world historical individuals, theretoo make it his passion to advance it in this way and teach the rest of us how to think about things. But for for hegel, it seems like if you just look at the idea itself, you'll be able to see what's going to come next. He says anything mental is going to have this sort of self propulsive nature, and it follows the progression of the dialectic. And i don't think it's an accident that he thinksyo
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