Many American schoolchildren in the southern part of the United States are still taught that the American Civil War was caused by northern aggression, where Union soldiers attacked the south, raped their women, and stole their land? German philosopher Georg …
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Happy Birthday, Georg Hegel
It’s the birthday of German philosopher and theologian Georg Hegel, best known for his observation that human societies evolve via a clash of opposite viewpoints, called dialectics. He theorized that each conflict of contraries results in something new which then itself …
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