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He tried to say everything at once (that history is reason unfolding, that mind and world are one) and nearly managed it.
He argued that philosophy had been describing the world when it should be changing it, and then described it more precisely than almost anyone.
Connection
G.W.F. Hegel inverted dialectic Karl Marx — Marx stood Hegel on his head: the Hegelian dialectic of ideas became the materialist dialectic of economic forces. He kept the logic of contradiction and development while replacing Spirit with the labor of actual human beings.
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Words
“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
“What experience and history teach is this — that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, nor acted on lessons they might have drawn from it.”
“Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
Key Moments
October 1806
Phenomenology finished as Napoleon enters Jena
1818
Professor and rector in Berlin
14 November 1831
Death by cholera
1849
Permanent exile in London
1867
Capital, Volume I published
Works
Phenomenology of Spirit
Philosophy of Right
Capital, Volume I