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NOTAS INTRODUTÓRIAS À FILOSOFIA DA HISTÓRIA DE HEGEL

Authors

  • Daniel Souza da Mota
  • Emerson da Silva Santos

Abstract

The position that the philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel holds regarding history is that history has a meaning, a significance, and a purpose. However, while on the one hand, the German philosopher conceives a teleological vision of history, where the telos (the meaning of history) is the expansion and realization of the consciousness of human freedom, and thus, reason governed and governs the world and everything is a rational and necessary development of the spirit. On the other hand, if we analyze the great tragedies, evils, and disasters of past eras, we will observe that they (dialectically) fostered and awakened certain transformations and alterations, causing the “general movement” (or even the global displacement) of the rational course (march or direction) of history to tend towards this progression and realization of the “consciousness of freedom”. In light of this, we could ask ourselves if tragedies are the fruits and effects of a “necessary evil” that exists so that history can follow and carry out its rational course towards its fulfillment? Given this, the main objective of this text is to investigate the following concepts (and their relationships): reason, freedom, and evil in the Introduction to the work Philosophy of History, by the philosopher Hegel.

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Published

2026-02-21