“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom,” wrote the 19th century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Immensely influential, Hegel shaped the concerns and thinking of generations to come. Chris Chong picks one of Hegel’s more accessible text - The Philosophy of History – to get a sense of his ambitious and complex intellectual project.

<p>&ldquo;The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom,&rdquo; wrote the 19<sup>th</sup> century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Immensely influential, Hegel shaped the concerns and thinking of generations to come. Chris Chong picks one of Hegel&rsquo;s more accessible text - The Philosophy of History &ndash; to get a sense of his ambitious and complex intellectual project.</p>

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