NASARA JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Certain phenomena such as; wars, social injustice, corruption, greed, lust for power and others, have always been part of human history as revealed in the historical books. The after-effects of these phenomena, however, have always been devastating to human life. Men are aware of these; yet these phenomena seem to be recurrent and have in fact assumed new and diverse dimensions. Why are we not positively affected by such experiences? Is there a force, a spirit, that purposefully operates in the midst of these phenomena 'snaking them what they are' as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel claims? Hegel, a renowned German philosopher, who attempted a solution to the above enigma, asserted that strife and conflict are necessary as past struggles are preserved as moments towards the self-awareness of freedom. Could he have meant that such devastating phenomena should continue to exist since the eventual goal is freedom? In the light of this, using Analytic method, this paper considers the idealistic Historical Dialectics of Hegel a problem. Consequently, would give a Critique of Hegel's historical dialectics, enunciating its strengths and weaknesses; with the eventual assertion that the pragmatic consequences of Hegel's position may be in valuable to man in certain crucial regards.

Open Full Text (PDF)