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Hegel and Race

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Hegel's the Haitian Revolution in the Contemporary World, Right?

Haiti never gets foregrounded in the way the American or French Revolution did. And so it's like, so you have two things kind of working against Hegel is that he likes to look at cases on a case-by-case basis. He also has this great line in the philosophy of history when he says, no one ever learns anything from events in history,. Like particular events in history are only taught when we're in touch with the universal.

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