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Hegel's Philosophy of History

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Development of Freedom

The development of freedom has to be accounted for in part as a response to real events in time, whether planned or unplanned. Roberts alotqua made of hegel minimizing societyis outside europe and china. What are the issues there, and are they fatal to his system? Hegel does distinguish between a sort of prehistorical period, which he associates mainly with africa, and then moves on to history proper beginning with china and soon. He talks about african and black people as human beings in an untamed and natural state who lack self control. And finally, just to mention that he relies prettyuncritical on various colonial british sources, for example, in his

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