PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Vincenzo Gioberti, Volksgeist, Edmund Husserl
28 Jul 2020
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Within the study of the state, hegel devotes much space to the study of world history as a rational and teleological process by which the spirit of the world (weltgeist) reaches a real consciousness of itself as freedom. The philosophy of history is the reflexive consciousness of history as dialectical self-development of the absolute through the particular states. The weltgeist is then manifested in each of the particular spirits of the peoples (volksgeist). In each epoch a certain people dominates with its volksgeist: from the eastern world the greek world emerges, then the. Roman world, and finally the germanic world which entered a new epoch with the french. However, the "spirit of the world" also uses in-dividuals of world historical. 1 importance (welthistoris- che individuen), to carry out its project. The state is the transition from the objective spirit to the absolute spirit; the spirit overcomes finitude and knows itself as being or totality, that is, it becomes absolute spirit.
