Lectures on the Philosophy of History

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Lectures on the Philosophy of History is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential view of world history as a rational process expressing the development of human freedom.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
collection of lectures
philosophical work
author G. W. F. Hegel
G. W. F. Hegel
surface form: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
basedOn university lectures
centralClaim history expresses the development of human freedom
reason governs the world
world history is a rational process
compiledFrom lecture notes
student transcripts
countryOfOrigin Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
editor Hegel’s students and followers
firstPublicationLanguage German
genre German idealism
philosophy
philosophy of history
hasPart Germanic world section
Greek world section
Roman world section
introduction
oriental world section
influenced 20th‑century philosophy of history
Alexandre Kojève
Benedetto Croce
Francis Fukuyama
Friedrich Engels
Karl Löwith
Karl Marx
historicist thought
mainSubject historical teleology
human freedom
philosophy of history
progress
reason in history
spirit
state
world history
world spirit
notableConcept cunning of reason
freedom as the end of history
world spirit
world‑historical individuals
originalLanguage German
philosophicalPerspective theological-political interpretation of history
philosophicalSchool absolute idealism
philosophicalTradition German idealism
publicationStatus posthumous
timePeriodDescribed world history from antiquity to modern Europe
viewOnHistory progressive
rational
teleological

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G. W. F. Hegel notableWork Lectures on the Philosophy of History