The history of consciousness and realizing history

Philosophy

Abstract

The paper deals with G. Hegel’s world history concept. The author demonstrates the way Hegel treats human history through the disclosed laws of the development of human consciousness. On the initial stage human ancestors identified themselves within the scope of their animal Ego which meant eating drinking and copulating. On the second stage they started to reveal their Selves as freed from Ego. To be able to do it they had to develop a form of mutual unequal self-consciousness which resulted in the segregation of people for masters and slaves. During the present day stage of total free equal self-consciousness an individual tends to be able to reveal himself as his free Self . Every individual goes through the above stages of self-consciousness in the process of personal development.