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Hegel's Philosophy of History

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom

Hegel was born into a lutheran household. He knew the turbulent times that people were living through and experienced them himself. His view of freedom doesn't require appeal to another world, be ond or outside this world. For hegel, only human animals have freedom. Even highly intelligent animals cannot adopt a point of view. They can't act from self conscious reasons. And it's those powers of reflection, or thought, that are uniquely human for hegel. Without which we would not have freedom at all.

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