The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel on History Book

	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
	Life and influence	2
	Scope of the inquiry	5
	Text of the Introduction	7
	Varieties of history	10
	Predecessors	15
	Structure of the inquiry	18
2	Presuppositions	23
	Logic of consciousness	26
	Scepticism	30
	Idealist metaphysics	34
	Double meanings	36
3	Subject and infinite power	39
	Preliminary observations	41
	Immanence and transcendence	44
4	Concept and spirit	49
	Idea and concept	51
	From nature to spirit	55
	The philosophical tradition	57
	Ordinary usage	60
	Forms of spirit	62
5	Freedom	65
	Everyday thought and philosophy	67
	Ethical life	71
	Objectivity and subjectivity	73
	Being at home	77
	Consciousness and realisation	79
6	From system to history	85
	Dialectical categories	86
	Recognition	90
	Actual and rational	96
7	Passion and conquest	103
	Interests	104
	States of mind	107
	The world's court of judgement	113
	Might and right	115
8	The cunning of reason	121
	Types of purpose	123
	Kant's conception	127
	Principles of development	129
	Literal truths	132
	Ancients and moderns	135
9	Peoples	137
	Ethnic diversity	140
	Non-European peoples	142
	Eurocentricty	145
	Imperialism	148
10	States	153
	Forms of state	156
	Beginnings of history	160
	Role of memory	163
11	The end of history	169
	Kojeve	171
	The last stage	173
	Two forms of development	177
	Morning prayer	179
	Poverty, politics and religion	181
	A vanished world	186
	Gates of hell	189
	Recognition and equality	191
12	The ways of God	195
	Problem of evil	195
	Divine comedy	198
	Death of God	200
	Consolations of immortality	203
	The empirical record	207
	World history in the twentieth century	209
	Responsibilities	213
	Notes	219
	Bibliography	221
	Index	229