Books
1- The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
2- The Science of Logic
3- Elements of the Philosophy of Right
1. Important parts of ourselves can be found in history.
Every era can be looked at as a respiratory of a particular kind of wisdom.
Progress is never linear. There is wisdom at every stage which points us to the task of the historian.
To be a historian is to be someone who should rescue, from the past, those ideas that're most needed to compensate for the blind spots of the present.
2. Learn from ideas you dislike.
the bits of the truth are always getting scattered even in unappealing, or peculiar places and we should dig them out by asking always, 'what sliver of sense and reason might be contained in otherwise frightening or foreign phenomena?'
Nationalism is the need for people to feel proud of where they come from, to identify with something beyond merely their own achievements, and to anchor their identities beyond the ego.
3. Progress is messy.
The painful stepping from era to era is inevitable.
4. Art has a purpose.
Hegel vigorously rejected the idea that art is for art's sake.
All art has a job to do. We need them so that important insights can become powerful and helpful in our lives.
'Art is the sensuous presentation of ideas.'
5. We need new institutions.
Correct, active, effective.
Institutions allow for the scale of time and power the big projects need to become effective in the world.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
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