李榮添 : 歷史之理性 -- 黑格爾歷史哲學導論述析 ( Hoffmeister, Nisbet)

李榮添 : 歷史之理性 -- 黑格爾歷史哲學導論述析 ( Hoffmeister, Nisbet)
excerpted from Lectures on the Philosophy of World History : Introduction : Reason in History. tr. by Nisbet.
( Nisbet, page 44 )

p. 44

3. We must first of all not that the objet we have before us, ie., world history, belongs to the realm ofthe siprit. the world as a world comprehends both physical and spiritual nature.

4. But the spirit andhe course of its development are he true substane of history. We do not have to consider nature here as a rational system in its own right -- although it is indeed a rational system, operating in its own distince element -- but OLLY in relation to spirit.

5. After the creation of the natural universe, man appears on hte scene as the antithesis of nature; he is the being who raises himself up into a second world.

6. The general consciousness of man includes two distinct provinces, that of nature and that of the spirit.

7. The province of the spirit is CREATED by man himself; and whatever ideas we may form of the kingdom of God, it MUST always remain a spiritual kingdom which is REALISED in man and which man is expected to translate into ACTUALITY.

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