Hegel, n.Definitions

Hegel (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠often sure of an ascending transition only because he is already sure of where it leads, and so takes hints and traces of the higher for proof of it.

Hegel (n.) helped ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠push the modern idea of freedom as self-dependence to its extreme, total self-creation, and was at the same time one of its profoundest critics, laying bare its emptiness and destructiveness.

Hegel (n.) restored ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Christianity's historical events to central importance against the Enlightenment's timeless rational religion, which is why some contemporaries took him for a restorer of orthodoxy.

Hegel (n.) starts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠every section over at the bottom, the Greeks after the self-legislating individual, the Persians before Christ, in a kind of compulsive encyclopaedism.