Introduction to the Philosophy of History was written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and published in 1837. As the title suggests, this text comprises Hegel’s introduction to a series of lectures on the philosophy of history. As an introduction, it lays out only the general outline of Hegel’s method of philosophic history. Any details tend to be about theoretical entities and concepts, and there are very few direct analyses of historical periods or events.

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