SOSC 2570 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Universal History

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2570
• Professor: Marc Weinstein

Document Summary

Philosophy of history: universal history - the in nite, the comprehensive, reason governs the world - sovereign of the world, history of the world is a rational process - development, all existence is derived from reason (the subject) The idea, the abstract principle has to incorporate everything is else in it: reason as a subject, incorporate everything else in it, necessarily it has to become concrete. The concrete world: the world of the individual, material world, phenomenal world. World spirit: reason when it manifests in the world. Reason is thought conditioning itself with perfect freedom. Spirit is self-consciousness: knowing itself unconsciousness. Capable of knowing itself - but only objectively - freedom. Limited notion of freedom - slavery was still prominent. Development over time includes expansion of freedom. Freedom is only freedom when its conscious of itself. Needs to synthesis these things into himself. Needs to retain what is positive in its universally. Its essence is being improved - freedom.