Hegelianism

worships the real as the rational, which is, said plainly, the deification of success.

“(a piece of surreptitiousness which only the 'we' can fail to recognize as such because they were raised in this Hegelian worship of the real as the rational, that is to say in the deification of success).”

is the latecomer's belief by bold inversion raised to godhood: his miserable condition equated with the completion of world-history, so that the world-process culminated in Hegel's own existence in Berlin.

“it must appear dreadful and devastating when such a belief one day by a bold inversion raises this latecomer to godhood as the true meaning and goal of all previous events, when his miserable condition is equated with a completion of world-history. so that for Hegel the climax and terminus of the world-process coincided with his own existence in Berlin.”

hegelianism, n.Definitions

hegelianism