
Episode 15: Hegel on History
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Absolute Spirit
Spirit is this abstract unity that wants to unfold itself in the world, through history, to some sort of end. It has a characteristic that makes you think of consciousness, or self consciousness,. t which is where you make the linkage into the transcendental ego and so forth. Yet, spirit itself is supposed to be something we are intimately familiar with. What is the means by which spirit is going to unfold as freedom in the world? In no other way than through the actions and activity of men. Oh, and how that wor thught is ng to besome cooler than that.
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