Oriental empires have no history, properly speaking, because they are merely a succession of governments which, as they arise and pass away, leave no traces behind them.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

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Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (Introduction)

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1830-1831 (published posthumously)

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Shocking

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https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpintro.htm

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