Comments on: 342 https://grundlinien.de/en/342/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Hegel (Simple) https://grundlinien.de/en/342/#comment-3782 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:01:40 +0000 https://grundlinien.de/?p=901038#comment-3782 § 342: No blind fate

World history is not merely the court of power. It is not a blind fate without reason.

What is it then?

Spirit is reason, and it knows itself. So world history is the necessary development of reason. It follows from the concept of the freedom of spirit. In it spirit becomes conscious of itself and of its freedom.

Summary: World history is not a blind fate. It is the necessary development of reason and of the freedom of spirit.

]]> By: Hegel (Encyclopedia 1817) https://grundlinien.de/en/342/#comment-2618 Wed, 30 Apr 1817 23:06:32 +0000 https://grundlinien.de/?p=901038#comment-2618 Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1817), § 449:

§ 449. This movement is the liberation of the ethical substance from the particularities in which it is actual in the individual peoples – the deed whereby spirit becomes the universal, the world spirit. Since it is the development of its self-consciousness in time, its individual moments and stages are the national spirits, each of which, however, as an individual and natural being, can fill only one stage and accomplish only one task of the whole deed.

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