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.

". . . On the one hand, it is its own sole precondition, and its and is the absolute and ultimate end of everything; on the other, it is itself the agent which implements and realises this end, translating it from potentiality into actuality both in the natural universe and in the spiritual would --that is in world history." ( Nisbet, page 27-28).


"Reason is self-sufficient and contains its end within itself; it beings itself into existence and carries itself in effect. Thought must become conscious of this end of reason. " ( Nisbet, page 28).