The Rational Kernel in the Hegelian Dialectic

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In hegelian philosophy, where Western thought attains its culmination prior to Marx, world history unfolded dialectically within the internal contradictions in the thought of each epoch, leading to the destruction of the old historical forms and a transition to a higher level of development. However, Hegel described this historical process from an abstract standpoint — from a purely intellectual plane. The ideal process of thought appears as an entirely independent and self-sufficient movement. It is separated from its objectively real base and denies this very objective reality. From this standpoint, the real objects of both nature and society lose their material reality, and subsist only as external phenomena reflecting the mystical development of the ‘Absolute Idea’.

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