Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each Hegelian term to its meaning.
- Geist
- Dialectic
- Aufhebung
- List der Vernunft
- Spirit or Mind, coming to know itself in time
- Spirit using private passion as its instrument
- To cancel, preserve, and lift up at once
- Contradiction resolving into a higher stage
Hints
- The terms name the subject, the motion and the mechanism.
- One explains how selfish motives serve the larger plot.
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- Geist → Spirit or Mind, coming to know itself in time
- Dialectic → Contradiction resolving into a higher stage
- Aufhebung → To cancel, preserve, and lift up at once
- List der Vernunft → Spirit using private passion as its instrument
Why
A subject, a motion, a mechanism, and an alibi. Together they make history into a plot with an author.
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