The Philosophy Of History

by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Sibree, J.; Friedrich, C. J.; Hegel, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780486437552
• ISBN10: 0486437558
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-10
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the "philosophy of history." With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
I. Original History	1	(3)
II. Reflective History	4	(4)
III. Philosophical History	8	(103)
Geographical Basis of History	79	(24)
CLASSIFICATION OF HISTORIC DATA	103	(8)
PART I. THE ORIENTAL WORLD
Principle of the Oriental World	111	(112)
SECTION I. China	116	(23)
SECTION II. India	139	(28)
SECTION II. Continued. India-Buddhism	167	(6)
SECTION III. Persia	173	(50)
Chapter I. The Zend People	176	(6)
Chapter II. The Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes, and Persians	182	(5)
Chapter III. The Persian Empire and its Constituent Parts	187	(54)
Persia	188	(3)
Syria and Semitic Western Asia	191	(4)
Judaea	195	(3)
Egypt	198	(21)
Transition to the Greek World	219	(4)
PART II. THE GREEK WORLD
The Region of Spirit	223	(55)
SECTION I. The Elements of the Greek Spirit	225	(16)
SECTION II. Phases of Individuality 7Esthetically Conditioned	241	(34)
Chapter I. The Subjective Work of Art	241	(3)
Chapter II. The Objective Work of Art	244	(6)
Chapter III. The Political Work of Art	250	(33)
The War with the Persians	256	(2)
Athens	258	(4)
Sparta	262	(3)
The Peloponnesian War	265	(6)
The Macedonian Empire	271	(4)
SECTION III. Fall of the Greek Spirit	275	(3)
PART III. THE ROMAN WORLD
Distinction between the Roman, Persian, and Greek Principle	278	(63)
SECTION I. Rome to the Time of the Second Punic War	283	(23)
Chapter I. The Elements of the Roman Spirit	283	(13)
Chapter II. History of Rome to the Second Punic War	296	(10)
SECTION II. Rome from the Second Punic War to the Emperors	306	(8)
SECTION III.
Chapter I. Rome under the Emperors	314	(4)
Chapter II. Christianity	318	(18)
Chapter III. The Byzantine Empire	336	(5)
PART IV. THE GERMAN WORLD
The Principle of Spiritual Freedom	341
SECTION I. The Elements of the Christian German World	347	(19)
Chapter I. The Barbarian Migrations	347	(8)
Chapter II. Mahometanism	355	(5)
Chapter III. The Empire of Charlemagne	360	(6)
SECTION II. The Middle Ages	366	(46)
Chapter I. The Feudality and the Hierarchy	366	(23)
Chapter II. The Crusade	389	(9)
Chapter III. The Transition from Feudalism to Monarchy	398	(14)
SECTION III. The Modern Time	412
Chapter I. The Reformation	412	(15)
Chapter II. Influence of the Reformation on Political Development	427	(11)
Chapter III. The Eclaircissement and Revolution	438