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Ep. 300: Nietzsche on Relating to History (Part One)

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Hegel's Meditation Is Untimely

Hegel's philosophy of history is seen as having a kind of development that is akin to the natural development of an organism, and one that culminates at flowers in hegel himself. So we can think about the most famous person influenced by hegel marks, that it is all historical forces. It doesn't even matter what some particular genius decided to do on some particular day. In so far as there might be imposing some form of this great man theory from hegel on to marks, somebody else would have done it pretty soon. Possibly a bunch of monkeys could have been the times calling for it.

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