Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel:

The spirit of the age is the spirit of God.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Modern

Dialectical philosophy

Context

Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Introduction

Date / Period

1837 (posthumous)

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34372/34372-h/34372-h.htm

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