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    Indian and Chinese civilizations are pre-historical in th... — Carmelics
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    Indian and Chinese civilizations are pre-historical in the context of world history.

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    • 1.World history is defined by progressive movement toward human freedom.
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    • 2.Indian and Chinese civilizations are regarded by Hegel as static rather than progressive.
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    • 3.A civilization that does not progress toward freedom does not participate in the unfolding of world history.
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    Hegel’s philosophy of history is perhaps the most fully developed philosophical theory of history that attempts to discover meaning or direction in history (1824a, 1824b, 1857). Hegel regards history as an intelligible process moving towards a specific condition—the realization of human freedom. “The question at issue is therefore the ultimate end of mankind, the end which the spirit sets itself in the world” (1857: 63). Hegel incorporates a deeper historicism into his philosophical theories tha
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