Stephen Downes

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If you are not familiar with Hegel, or maybe have heard the name but that's about it, then you definitely want to give this newly revised article a look. Hegel is many things, and can't be summarized here. His logic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis is well known, as is this idea of the world spirit (Weltgeist) and of a flow or direction of history. He stands as a key bridge between Kant on the one hand and contemporary existentialism and Marxism on the other. Image: Wikipedia.

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