This is an excerpt from a past episode of The Partially Examined Life podcast, discussing GWF Hegel's Philosophy of History. You can find the unabridged Hegel podcast, along with dozens of others discussing philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, at the Partially Examined Life website: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com
About PEL: The podcasters were all graduate students in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin back in the Clinton years. They all left the program at some point before getting their doctorates and have consequently since had time to get outside that whole weird world of academia and reflect on it and the various philosophical topics with a different, and probably much more lazy, perspective.
5000 yrs of warfare. There's been a lot of rational improvement since then, such as laser guided missles and nuclear bombs. We're on our way world, we're on our way.
SimulacraMan 9 months ago