Comment by humanistbot

Ah yes, the man who believed that the human struggle was a deterministic process of synthesis crashing into antithesis over and over again, with each new generation overturning the prior and then regressing back a bit, building from small tribes to modern civilization. A process of continual improvement that, according to Hegel, can be logically derived from first principles so that the arc of civilization just happens to culminate in the greatest accomplishment of reason understanding itself: the reformed Prussian state of 1807.