Hegel dialectic1/12/2024 ![]() They cannot be regarded as disinterested reflections on the historical process, but as ‘integral components of history’ recorded by historians who embody the cultural consciousness of the speaker. Speeches recorded in historical accounts are uniquely valuable in this regard, since they embody a particular time and place they constitute ‘effective actions in their very essence’, and provide us with a sense of history as it unfolded at the time. ![]() Hegel cites Thucydides and Herodotus as prime examples of original historians, since their accounts constitute a “history whose spirit the historian has shared in.” Consequently, their accounts express “the maxims of their nation and their own personality, their consciousness of their political position and of their moral spiritual nature, and the principles which underlie their designs and conflict.” So by examining this sort of history, we can acquire a greater understanding of a culture’s customs, beliefs, and practices, and so penetrate into the essence of a specific period. As Hegel notes, original history constitutes a ‘portrait of a time’ rather than an academic analysis of past events. However, as Duncan Forbes writes in his introduction to the Introduction, “the first, most primitive (that is logically primitive) kind of history, ‘original’ history, is barely history at all in so far as it represents an immediate unity between the historian’s consciousness this sort of contemporary history is necessarily limited.” Forbes argues that it is impossible for the original historian to provide much theory on, or even reflect very comprehensively on, events he has only just witnessed. Contemporary historians aim to record recent and current events with precision and accuracy, explaining and summarising it simply. Hegel says that the purpose of original history is to create a ‘mental representation’ of phenomena. It includes the historian’s own experiences as part of the history he’s recording. Original history refers to first-hand accounts of events, actions and situations, collected or verified by the historian himself. In his Introduction to Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (1837), Hegel argues that there are three ways of doing history. ![]() To see more art, please visit /photos/venantius/albums Hegel’s Classification of History
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