The Motor Of History For Hegel Analysis

According to Rousseau, noble savages live in the state of nature, which he believes is the golden stage of humans and exists in the past when humans were first-born. Unlike, Hobbes’ idea, which believes that humans are violence at their purest, have no order since no one can control each other, and are naturally “intrepid and seeks only to attack and to fight” (pg.20), Rousseau stated that in the purest stage, men are innocent, proud, and strong. Moreover, he claimed that “Hobbes says precisely the opposite, because he had wrongly injected into the savage man’s concern for self-preservation the need to satisfy a multitude of passions which are the product of society and which have made laws necessary” (pg. 35). However, the history has been declining and corrupt since the beginning of the birth of humans. The motors of history for Rousseau
The motor of history for Hegel is dialects, which is the concept of people holding different viewpoints about a subject or topic and find out the truth through arguments. In his opinion, people will not be able to reach the golden stage, when people are aware of self-conscious and self-comfort since there are always conflicts. Napoleon becomes the spirit of state or reason is an example of the value of present time for Hegel. Napoleon as the founder of the State, which is the divine idea, was carrying out the philosophy of history of Hegel that he presented the spirit is free. Moreover, Hegel believes that German state is what the history is going to take us since he claimed that “it was first the Germanic peoples, through Christianity, who came to the awareness that every human is free by virtue of being human, and that the freedom of spirit comprises our most human nature” (pg. 21). Although Hegel did not promise the golden stage, he did guarantee the stage of freedom when humans are