Hegel

Could it be "phenomenology" that you're after?

His historicism uses a dialectical approach. He believed that often there are two opposing views, that might be partly right and partly wrong, and then a third view would be introduced if this was the case. He also believed that the world reason is growing as civilization develops and that we can't judge a person in ancient times to be right or wrong because their reasoning was ignorant of the things we know today.

His dialectic involves the concept that in the beginning ideas are incomplete and therefore contain within themselves inherent contradictions. This conflict results in a resolution that sublates the original concept by synthesizing it with its antithesis (the idea that it suggested as its conflict). This synthesis surpasses both independent ideas, but they are still existent within it. Busy now. More to follow later.

Re: Hegel
mariadogs



My opinion is this: Hegel believed that an entity, the Concept - or the Spirit (God?) - is in itself but not for itself. I mean, without the existence of anything different, anything that is not the Concept, it is impossible for the Concept to exist: it is but does not exist, because existence supposes to be "out of".
By a necessarily dialectical movement, the Concept becomes what it was not - example: the mineral.

All History is the movement of the Concept, from it's "being in itself but not for itself" to the alienation of being the other. History becomes the long march of the Concept trying to find itself. The end of History would be reached when the Concept, in a final reconciliation, becomes in itself and for itself. That means, the absolute consciousness.

Hegel believed that his philosophy was the expression of that final synthesis.

His Philosophy of History is concerned with how Spirit is embodied in history as it becomes conscious of itself in civilizations. Historical progress coincides with the progression of freedom in culture as people become subjectively aware of objective culture and society.