The Spirit's Historical Consciousness in Hegel A Few Considerations

The Spirit's Historical Consciousness in Hegel A Few Considerations A usual misunderstanding about Hegel's philosophy is that his system is an aprioric design of thought where there is no place for empirical knowledge and where the premises of the system are already drawn into conclusions before any kind of research is done. There is nothing more false about Hegel than this. However; it has become a widely-held idea that this characteristic would be traceable in all his philosophy. Another common misrepresentation is that Hegel imposes from outside an arbitrary reason for historical development and that he begs the question for finding facts that would suite his allegations. We will proceed to show, by following a few tenets of his Lectures on World History, how the entire central concept is totally different and that philosophical knowledge has an aprioric grasp at another level of his speculative constructions.