Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

s, but work honestly to secure concrete results. I trust that our deliberations in the Assembly will lead us to this path. 91. The German philosopher Hegel believed that a notable contribution of man to civilization was the creation of the nation-State, which provides the individual with the opportunity

for becoming very instrumental in the third world in a world in movement. The destiny of the new world cannot be adapted or adjusted to the ideas of Hegel with regard to Africa. The immediate weakness of the Nazis, to give one verifiable example, was to claim that the rest of humanity was subhuman. 241.

It even appears in the philosophy of Hegel, who was responsible for the idea of a State being constituted by groups of the extreme right and the extreme left, forming what that philosopher cal

on of the middle class, of print culture and of the establishment of modern democracies. It introduced all of these “world-historical” events, to use Hegel’s term that we call, rather sloppily, “modernity.” I conclude my intervention on the subject of modernity, because many commentators on the current w

h century, we witnessed the spectacular collapse of Soviet communism, which claimed to be the political doctrine of the future, with which, following Hegel, we would see the end of politics and therefore of history and enter into a sort of rebuilt earthly paradise. The claimed communist universality saw

the socialist economy and liberal democracy triumphant over the Communist world, that we were entering an era of peace and stability in which the old Hegelian dialectics would yield to a world of synthesis — what was termed the end of history, what others called the pensée unique. Undoubtedly, that was a

y — so that morality may triumph in politics and that the separation of the two will have been but a moment in the history of our race. To paraphrase Hegel, we can say, “What are we? What shall we become?”

optimism the positive turn of events that has taken place in the conduct of Governments. Louis XIV considered himself the State: "L’état, c’est moi." Hegel envisaged the State as God’s path towards the Earth, perfect reason which never errs. That led to the doctrine of raison d’état as the motivating for

ity. The same is true of our "lavalasian" policy. We take from it the sap of liberating truth and democratic ethics. From Socrates to Heidegger, from Hegel to Jean-Paul Sartre, over and above philosophical differences, our political ethic makes it essential for us to seek truth from the very source of ob

the theology of freedom and the politics of freedom necessarily phases through the life and experiences of the poor. When Jean-Paul Sartre criticised Hegel he noted that the latter had overlooked the fact that a void is devoid of something, and that liberation theologians can state that the void of pover

idered, until new, to be peripheral, and all of which have acquired undeniable universal value. It would seem - and here, inevitably, history recalls Hegel and the phenomenology of the spirit - that the universal realizes itself only in the particular. In that sense, the world is becoming eccentric, and

113. Sheikh ALHEGELAN (Saudi Arabia) I wish at the outset to convey to you, Sir, our sincere congratulations on your well-deserved election to the presidency of the thir

ophy with the Christian sentiment of life and who bears the stamp of Christian philosophy in contrast with the dissolvent philosophies that followed, Hegel’s belief in the absolute power of the State and the materialism of Marx. 75.