{"id":1777,"date":"2022-11-13T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T13:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/13\/hegel-on-history\/"},"modified":"2022-11-13T13:17:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T13:17:45","slug":"hegel-on-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/11\/13\/hegel-on-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegel on History: Another Case of Misattribution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Misattributed to Hegel: "We learn from history that we do not learn from history." Close, but that's not what he says. <\/span><\/p>\n

I haven't checked the following quotations, but they look good to the eye of one who has read his fair share of the Swabian genius. HT: Seth Nimbosa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Was die Erfahrung aber und die Geschichte lehren, ist dieses, da\u00df V\u00f6lker und Regierungen niemals etwas aus der Geschichte gelernt und nach Lehren, die aus derselben zu ziehen gewesen w\u00e4ren, gehandelt haben. (Vorlesungen \u00fcber die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What experience and history teach is this \u2014 that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it. (Lectures on the Philosophy of World History<\/em>, tr. H. B. Nisbet (1975))<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I'll leave it to the reader to ponder the internal coherence, or rather incoherence, of the Hegelian observation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related:<\/span><\/p>\n

Misattributed to Socrates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A Misattribution [of mine] Corrected<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

If you can show me that I have made a mistake, I will admit my error.  How many people do that? Am I now 'signaling my virtue' or setting a good example? You decide. <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, it is easy to admit minor errors.  It is the big ones that we are loathe to admit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Misattributed to Hegel: "We learn from history that we do not learn from history." Close, but that's not what he says.  I haven't checked the following quotations, but they look good to the eye of one who has read his fair share of the Swabian genius. HT: Seth Nimbosa Was die Erfahrung aber und die … Continue reading “Hegel on History: Another Case of Misattribution”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,199,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hegel","category-history","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}