"The Philosophy of History" by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,1832

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Spirit is freedom and self-consciousness acting to realize its own potentiality.
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The real is the rational,
and the rational is the real ;
Idea or Reason is the formative principle of all reality.
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The goal of history is the liberation of Spirit from its confinement in Nature in order that Spirit might be reunited with its essence as Idea.
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The Spirit could not realize its reunion with Idea were it not for the force of Will,
as derived from human passions.
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The individual as individual is unimportant ;
only the historically decisive actor,the hero,
makes a significant difference in history ;
but whether a man be a conventional citizen,a courageous person,a hero,or a victim,
he is nothing but the Spirit's instrument.
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The embodiment of the Spirit's freedom is the State ;
the State is the concrete unity of freedom and passion.
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"Logic" by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,1812

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What is real is rational,and what is rational is real.
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Logic,which is a systematic creative process,has three stages :
the abstract stage,
the dialectical stage,and
the speculative stage.
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In the abstract stage terms of thought are considered separately ;
in the dialectical stage one realizes that for something to exist it must be,not separate,but in relation to others ; and
in the speculative stage one understands the unity of opposites in their opposition.
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There are three subdivisions of logic :
the Doctrine of Being,
the Doctrine of Essence,and
the Doctrine of Idea
-by which being is known not only for itself and for another,but in-and-for itself.
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