0 - System of Science > Hegel was an idealist in the sense that he thought that reality was > ultimately spiritual, and that it developed according to the process > of thesis/antithesis/synthesis. Hegel also glorified the Prussian > state, claiming that it was God’s work, was perfect, and was the > culmination of all human history. > > Just about everything in the previous paragraph is false except for > the first sentence. What is even more striking is that it is all > clearly and demonstrably wrong, has been known to be wrong in > scholarly circles for a long time now, and still appears in almost all > short histories of thought or brief encyclopedia entries about > Hegel.” > > (Terry Pinkard: “Hegel: A Biography”, Cambridge University Press > 2000.)

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