The Rational Freedom:on Hegel’s Explanation Principle Of Philosophy Of History

The Rational Freedom is the core of Hegel’s philosophy of History.The Rational Freedom in Hegel’s philosophy of history is not a transcendent mental entity.This principle is an ideological premise rather than a speculative science for predicating the future history.So,Hegel’s main task is to answer how to understand history,not the history itself.Therefore,Hegel’s philosophy of history focuses most on the explanation principle and its concept structure as well as clarifying their theoretical connotations.Based on these,this explanation principle will distract rheological history activities,and present them as a more organic world history.Thus,these methods can be used to seize infinite objects in the history,offering us reasonable value and guidance on thinking about the research orientation of history.The greatest contribution of the Rational Freedom is that it has solved the past explanation which analyzes the history with natural causality as well as the way to deal with the spirit of objects with the method of dealing with natural objects,thus mixing the differences about their nature and imperfections.Based on these,Hegel holds that only when people understand the Rational Freedom,can they view them as a whole and organic entirety.Besides,it fits more human’s basic intuition to the history.Therefore,Hegel’s view of historical progress is not the progress of historical facts but the progress of explanation principle.In order to testify that Hegel’s Rational Freedom is the explanation principle rather than a mental entity forming thoughts altitude,the paper is going to demonstrate it in the following three parts.Firstly,as a logical metaphysics,Hegel’s ontology is not a traditional transcendent object,but a system of concepts about rational thinking.The system of concept lies on the altitude of reflective thinking,which is far away from realistic objects,so it is meaningless.The Rational Freedom is not a rigid and closed concept but a philosophy method which is used to clarify concepts and contents and clear category relations.Based on these methodologies and Kant’s own view of freedom,Hegel put forward his own Rational Freedom.The freedom in Kant’s mind is rooted on individuality,but it cannot be experienced in empirical reality.Hegel’s view of freedom is in line with Kant’s,but Hegel holds that Kant’s is not complete,because individual rationality can only reveal the possibility of freedom rather than confirm the reality of freedom.Therefore,the Rational Freedom is based on historical rationality.In addition to that,the achievement of Rational Freedom is the formation of the system of concept and its aim is to break through the opposition between the natural world and the spirit world,unifying them in the infinite activities of the real world from the concepts.Therefore,the Rational Freedom is not the mental entity that forms the thoughts,but explanation principle from the view of reflective thinking.Then,we made the above points explicit by reflecting on how Hegel explained historical processes with the Rational Freedom.The concrete explanation of the Rational Freedom is the concrete operating processes.“The concrete processes” is to reflect on Hegel’s access to shaping history from the altitude of “concrete causes”,which makes the history a reality and then makes the Rational Freedom a series of different concepts of aspects and degrees.Finally,The explanation principle should be considered from Hegel’s Rational Freedom,making the truth of history possible.In order to show the world history,Hegel firstly employ the basic methods of holism in order to make a large number of topics under the truth of history into a system of topics.Besides,it includes a series of aspects and concrete aspects.Viewed from the vertical standard,those concepts contain freedom,individual passion and national state.Viewed from horizontal standard,these concepts contain oriental world,ancient Greece and Rome.These two standards together completed the operating processes of Rational Freedom in Philosophy of History.Based on this,the conclusion part aims to study the sublation of Hegel’s “Rational Freedom” by Karl Marx’s “Human Liberation”.From the positive aspect,the Human Liberation exits as an explanation principle rather than a research object or essential rules.The Human Liberation has to be based on the historical materialism and then it can be presented in the course of history or the human history will have nothing to do with the Human Liberation.Therefore,the Human Liberationis an issue on how to understand history rather than the history itself,which is in line with Hegel’s attitude towards rational freedom.From a critical aspect,the core of rational freedom is “to go back to oneself in objects”.From the point of Hegel,the Rational Freedom has been achieved.One of major tasks of Philosophy is to reach a further understanding on the Rational Freedom from the point of critical thinking.In that way,it will be realistic to reach a compromise with broken realities.So the Rational Freedom is a classical point of freedom where denying existing objects coexist with admitting them.Marx’s point of freedom is the Human Liberation,which means escaping from something or somewhere then gaining freedom.It reflects Marx’s freedom of reality,whose content does not reach a compromise with the understanding of history,but the improvements on the existing conditions by admitting them at the same time.In Marx’s view,the Human Liberation is possible,but not realized yet,his basic idea is to face the contradiction directly rather than solve the contradictions in the aspects of thoughts.In other words,it is a process which aims to break constraints and change the reality.Therefore,Marx’s Human Liberation is a modern point of freedom on “admitting existing objects coexist with remaking them”.