02-07-2006, 04:02 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Before Hegel, others had tried to see a pattern in history. Most saw such patterns as cyclic. Here, for instance, is history as The Wheel of Fortune (Rota Fortuna). This sees history progressing from peace to wealth, from wealth to pride, from pride to war, from war to poverty, from poverty to humility, from humility to peace.
<b>Hegel also saw history as progressing through a series of phases, but not in eternal circles. To Hegel, history had a sense of direction, with the Universal Mind progressing towards a total consciousness of freedom through the process of the dialectic.</b>
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ramana,
Your Link in previous thread was very information, but why Indian Maxist have no problem understanding Chinese History.
<b>Hegel also saw history as progressing through a series of phases, but not in eternal circles. To Hegel, history had a sense of direction, with the Universal Mind progressing towards a total consciousness of freedom through the process of the dialectic.</b>
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ramana,
Your Link in previous thread was very information, but why Indian Maxist have no problem understanding Chinese History.