...moment of immediacy is required for the development of freedom in history. As he says in his lectures, "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."7" He conceives of freedom as autonomy, ie, the ability of the individual to give a law to...

...uncovering the empowerment of love is through willful expression of love to oneself, others, and Spirit. The history of the world is none other than the progress of the Consciousness of Freedom. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel This book is the story of my journey that I began in 1 968. It is...

...trans. HB Nisbet, 1975, p. 94) He believed that history had meaning and a direction we can discern: 'The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.' His conception of freedom is central to his thought. Real freedom comes when we can control the forces...

...Roman world only that some are free; while we know that all men absolutely (man as man) are free." "The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."16 Although neither Gadamer nor Ricoeur has singled the topic out for special consideration,...

...Marx will re-phrase, more famously, "Freedom is the recognition of necessity.") Most dramatically, "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." Where Christianity and Kant had seen "actual" freedom as often not freedom at all, but slavery to one's...

...the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist." — Chinese proverb "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom." — Georg Hegel "Independence now and independence forever." — Webster "Freedom is not merely a word...

...purpose. a goal; and that goal is the evolution of the Spint towards a fuller consciousness of itself: The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom ... The destiny of the spintual World. and - since this is the substantiol World. while the physical...

...exhibition of Spirit in the process of working out the knowledge of that which it is potentially. . . The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom. History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of...

...independently of something external. I am free, on the contrary, when my existence depends on myself The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom . . . The destiny of the spiritual world, and the final cause of the World at large, we claim to be...

...the historical specificity of the human condition, Hegel was greatly concerned with demonstrating how the "history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom" (cit. Singer 2001: 15). While this appears to be compatible with the nineteenth-century liberal philosophical...