World spirit
The concept of world spirit as a metaphysical principle is initially known as the central concept of Hegel's speculative philosophy : for him, the entire historical reality, totality , is the process of the world spirit. This realizes the "end purpose" in world history, namely the " reason in history". With this view, he tied in with the world spirit theory first published by Schelling .
In Napoleon z. B. he saw him embodied in an exemplary manner. Hegel saw in Napoleon the " world soul on horseback", later often changed to the word "world spirit on horseback".
Marx and Engels tied more cryptically to the Hegelian definition of the world spirit. In the German ideology they use the term materialistically and critically: The chicane of the world spirit or the “ ruse of reason ” ultimately identify itself as a world market . The early socialist Moses Hess associated with them, on the other hand, represented a kind of messianism with the content that a new world age had started with the French Revolution .
literature
- Oliver W. Lembcke : About the end of history and the beginning of modern politics. To Hegel's figure of the world spirit. In: Kristian Kühl , Gerhard Seher (ed.): Rome, law, religion. Symposium for Udo Ebert on his seventieth birthday. (= Politika. Vol. 5). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150894-3 , pp. 297-307.
- Miklós Vassányi: Anima mundi. The Rise of the World Soul Theory in Modern German Philosophy. (= Archives internationales d'histoire des idées. Vol. 202). Springer, Dordrecht a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-90-481-8795-9 , partly also dissertation, University of Leuven, 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ P. Prechtl (Ed.): Philosophy . Metzler, Stuttgart 2005, p. 218.