POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Rationality, Totalitarianism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
29 Oct 2014
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Oct. 28 - history and freedom: part two. If an idea only comes into existence when actualized, ideas can be denied. There must be a respect of rights (ideas) before they are put into practice. You can have the idea of freedom or the idea of property, but it is not actuality until it is recognized by others. History: hegel thinks that freedom for all humans is the goal of world history, we are actively trying to produce more systems to actualize freedom. History is nothing more than the actualization of freedom by the modern state . ), its actualization through time, and it"s transition from abstract right to concrete right (fully actual) In some societies, these concepts are better or more actualized than others. In some societies they will be more articulated or made possible: the universe is simply the progressive actualization of ideas, and that"s what it"s about.
