History: The Logic Of Freedom

Hegel (Georg Wilhelm, Friendrich Hegel, Under-,1770-1831) as one of thegreatest speculative philosophy master in the history, he has built a grand system ofphilosophy. Philosophy of history is his philosophical system in the vertex andsumming up. In Hegel’s theoretical system, historic significance has become anindispensable and mature philosophical principle. On one hand, the philosophy ofhistory is an important part of his spiritual philosophy, and some subordination to histheory of the state; the other hand, Hegel’s Philosophy of History system at the sametime express history in the form of a logic. All the philosophy of Hegel is permeatedwith historical interest " In Hegel’s Philosophy of History,"History is a sense offreedom in the inevitability of progress,"summarizes Hegel’s accurate understandingof the nature of history. His understanding of the nature of history, relying on theanalysis of the objective spirit. Among them, the sense of freedom experienced in thecourse of human history from scratch, by the implicit and explicit, to the finalrealization of the "absolute spirit" of the required free since in order to exist, andcompleted the main line of development of world history. The main idea of this paperis to explore the core of the Hegelian view of history of logic in the context ofintellectual history, and return to the specific itinerary of the history of the world, inthis logical framework to guide the historical logic, history confirms the logic, andfinally combined to examine the limits of Hegel’s philosophy of history. The main lineof this article is the "consciousness of freedom", the text around its ownconsciousness expand the discourse, which is the fundamental principle of theHegelian understanding of history.There are mainly four parts in this paper.In the first part it introduces the background of Hegel’s philosophy of history. Itis truly that Italian historian Vico gives the philosophy of history in the true sense.Although Vico hadn’t stated clear concept of the philosophy of history, yet he hadintegrated philosophy and history together which in the completely separate areas inorder that philosophy reflects on history and conclusive evidence in the history ofphilosophy. Kant, Herder, the well-known speculative philosophers of history before Hegel, they were going on two different roads. However, as the peak of speculativephilosophy of history development, Hegel’s philosophy of history combinedenthusiasm and imagination of the kind of worship by Herder and the rationalprinciple of certainty by Kant well. In order to form his own unique theory. He foundthe sense of freedom (absolute spirit) to achieve self-development and realization ofthe absolute spirit, and found the power of the historical development of mankind.In the second part it mainly analyzes the logical core of the Hegel’s philosophyof history. From freedom to spirit and to the people in the history, it revealed the logiccore of the Hegel’s philosophy of history theory. In many cases, many scholarsalways consider the Hegel’s freedom and spirit as the logical stating and theoreticalcore in Hegel historical researching. And it also refers to the people in history.People as the intermediary link, links absolute spirit and reality of history and indeed,it is an important part of the logical development of the Hegelian philosophy ofhistory. Human nature completely is history, history can not be crossed and achievedreunification, even if it is only logical unity.In the third part it mainly to be the fullness of the first part of the abstract logicaldemonstration process, by a combination of Hegel’s Philosophy of History"monograph and the specific historical traveling. Where it described the reality ofthe history of philosophy of Hegel to us vividly through the analysis of thenation-state and showing the process of world history.In the fourth part we have two questions from the abstract to the Hegelianphilosophy of history and analysis: Is there any practical basis to the so-calledHegelian view of history "The End of History" theory? Is Hegel’s absolute spirit ofself-return a freedom of progressivism?The exploring of the last questions is still immature in this paper. Here this onlyprovides a way of thinking in order to be able to play a valuable role.